Buildings at Cambridge’s Darwin College are granted listed status

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy More buildings at Cambridge University’s first college to admit both men and women have been granted listed status, affording them protection. The Dining Hall and the Rayne Building at Darwin College have both been listed at Grade II by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport on the advice of Historic England. A detached townhouse bought from descendants of Charles Darwin in 1962 and a neighbouring house bought from St John’s College in 1966 were both already listed at Grade II, since 1972. “They are fine modern buildings central to much of Darwin’s life as a College, and a worthy reflection of the ambitions of the College’s founders.” Arts and Heritage Minister Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay said: “Darwin College’s sympathetic fusion of old and new is a key part of the post-war evolution of the ancient University of Cambridge.