Physics Building — Trinity College

The saved account records: Round-headed recess to centre of front projection, having channelled granite surround, glazed tympanum over doorcase with broken segmental pediment having Trinity College crest, square-headed door opening with carved granite architrave and entablature having carved granite date stone with laurel wreath surround and swags and nameplate, double-leaf part-glazed timber panelled doors having wrought-iron openwork to glazed panels.

The saved account records: Detached eleven-bay three-storey over basement college building, dated 1905, having attic storey, projecting central range to front (south) and rear (north) elevations, and addition, built 1960, attached at east by glass link corridor.

The saved account records: Hipped slate roof partially concealed behind balustraded granite parapet with granite coping, carved granite urns to projecting central range to front, and overhanging eaves course supported on granite bracket course.

The saved account records: Ashlar granite walls with raised granite quoins, granite platband and plinth course.

Physics Building — Trinity College matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: Built in 1904/5 to designs of William Cecil Marshall, this building was funded by a gift from Viscount Iveagh. It continued the tradition of freestanding, stone, subject-specific buildings which was begun by Deane & Woodward’s Museum Building. The lack of public spaces unifying the buildings to the east end of the campus was a persistent problem in the early twentieth century, and these two blocks, 50020411 and 50020412, were sited in an attempt to create a new relaxed quadrangle around which later developments could form. The retention of historic windows, cast-iron rainwater goods with decorative detailing… This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.