TL4557 : Scott Polar Research Institute
taken 10 years ago, near to Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
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In Scotland three classifications are also used but the criteria are different. There are around 47,500 Listed buildings.
Category A (8%)- generally equivalent to Grade I and II* in England and Wales
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In Northern Ireland the criteria are similar to Scotland, but the classifications are:
Grade A (2.3%)
Grade B+ (4.7%)
Grade B (93%)
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Lensfield Road (part of the A603) is in southeast central Cambridge. It runs between the junction of Trumpington Street and Trumpington Road to the west and the junction of Regent Street and Hills Road to the west.
On the south side of the road are the Scott Polar Research Institute, St Albans Primary School and the University of Cambridge's Department of Chemistry. On the corner with Hills Road is Our Lady and the English Martyrs Church.
To the north between Tennis Court Road and Regent Street is Downing College, which owns many properties on the road.
The Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI) is a centre for research into the polar regions and glaciology worldwide. It is a sub-department of the Department of Geography in the University of Cambridge, located on Lensfield Road. The Institute was founded in 1920 in Memory of Robert Scott. It houses the Polar Museum and a library archive.
Grade II listed. Link
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