County Hall, Cambridge


County Hall is a former municipal building, now used for student accommodation, in Hobson Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England. It is a Grade II listed building.

History

Originally the old Shire House on Market Hill had been used as the local facility for dispensing justice but, following the implementation of the Local Government Act 1888, which established county councils in every county, it also became necessary to find a meeting place for Cambridgeshire County Council. A new building, designed by Herbert Henry Dunn in the Neoclassical style, was completed in 1914. After the County Council found the Hobson Street building too small and moved to Shire Hall in 1933, the building in Hobson Street continued to be used, inter alia, as the County Record Office, until it was acquired by Christ's College, Cambridge in 1986. It was subsequently converted to student accommodation, based on designs by Lyster, Grillet and Harding, and renamed the Todd Building, after Lord Todd, a Nobel laureate.