Sussex Street is a pedestranised shopping street in central

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.Sussex Street
,

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. It runs between Sidney Street to the southwest and the junction of King Street and Hobson Street to the northeast.

History

The street was designed in the 1920s and 1930s. It is in the neo-Georgian style and was described by the architectural historian Sir

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as the "''best piece of pre-war urban planning at Cambridge''." The original line of the street dates back to at least the

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. However, the buildings on the street today were planned as a

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for Sidney Sussex College and built during 1928–39, just before

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. To the north of the street is the

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college

Sidney Sussex College Sidney Sussex College (historically known as "Sussex College" and today referred to informally as "Sidney") is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England. The College was founded in 1 ...

, fronting onto Sidney Street. To the south and parallel with the street is ''Hobson's Passage''. On the corner with Sidney Street is the tall and distinctive

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Montagu House.Sussex Street: Montagu HouseCambridge 2000
There is a

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linking the two sides of the street.

References

External links

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photographs on

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History

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