On the corner is the tall and distinctive Montagu House,[4] part of Sidney Sussex College.
Holy Trinity Church is on the southwestern side, on the southern corner with Market Street.
The buildings owned by Sidney Sussex, Gonville and Caius, and St John's colleges, for example Trinity College owns the building that houses the J Sainsbury food store, the main central Cambridge supermarket.
The Lloyds Bank building was designed by the Victorian architect Alfred Waterhouse and built 1890–93.
[7] Originally the building was part of Fosters' Bank and the name still exists over the doorway.