Pembroke Street is a street in central

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It runs between

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and

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at the eastern end and a junction with

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at the western end. It continues west on the other side of Trumpington Street as Mill Lane. To the south of the street, along its entire length, is Pembroke College, hence the name. In the 20th century, the architect W. D. Caröe added the Pitt Building between Ivy Court and the

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former Master's Lodge, and extended New Court with the construction of a new staircase on the other side of the Lodge. He linked the two buildings with an arched stone screen, Caröe Bridge, along Pembroke Street in a late

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style. To the north at the eastern end is the New Museums Site of the

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. The Cambridge University Department of Chemical Engineering was located here until 2017. Just to the north of Pembroke Street is the

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, which leads off Pembroke Street. Botolph Lane runs parallel with Pembroke Street just to the north of it, between Free School Lane and Trumpington Street, to the south of Corpus Christi College.

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