{{Short description|Residential building in Cambridge, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Use British English|date=February 2023}} {{coord|52.1988|0.1199|display=title}} thumb|150px|William Stone Building, Peterhouse, Cambridge thumb|150px|William Stone Building, Peterhouse, Cambridge The '''William Stone Building''' is a residential structure within the grounds of Peterhouse, Cambridge, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge. It was recognised as a Grade II listed building in March 1993.
The William Stone Building comprises residential accommodation for eight fellows and 24 students of Peterhouse. It was constructed during 1963-64 to a design by Leslie Martin and Colin St John Wilson that was influenced by the work of Alvar Aalto.<ref name="pet">{{cite web|url=http://www.pet.cam.ac.uk/virtualtour/arch_tour/073.html|work=Peterhouse Architectural Tour|title=William Stone Building|accessdate=2014-10-22|publisher=Peterhouse, Cambridge |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080529122015/http://www.pet.cam.ac.uk/virtualtour/arch_tour/073.html |archivedate=2008-05-29}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |work=The Guardian |date=16 May 2007 |title=Obituary: Sir Colin St John Wilson |first=Nicholas |last=Ray |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/may/16/guardianobituaries.obituaries |accessdate=22 October 2014}}</ref> The March 1993 Grade II listing details describe it: {{blockquote|Buff brick; copper cladding. Flat roof. Irregular plan with staggered rooms, facing west. Eight storeys. Horizontal strip windows with bull-nosed cills. Varnished timber frames. Copper sheet cladding above top storey window. Elevation to east has expressed rectangular staircase and lift tower rising above roof line and narrow horizontal strip windows.<ref>{{NHLE |desc=|num=1265227 |accessdate=22 October 2014}}</ref>}}
The building is {{convert|102|ft|m}} high on a {{convert|71|ft|m}} by {{convert|42|ft|m}} Aalto-inspired staggered ground plan.<ref>{{cite web |title=Guidance for the Application of Policy |year=2006 |page=45 |publisher=Cambridge City Council |url=https://www.cambridge.gov.uk/sites/www.cambridge.gov.uk/files/docs/cambridge-skyline-guidance.pdf |accessdate=22 October 2014}}</ref><ref name="orton">{{cite book |title=The Way We Build Now: Form, Scale and Technique |first=Andrew |last=Orton |publisher=Taylor & Francis |year=2013 |isbn=978-1-13673-709-1 |pages=346–347 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=blIYlmWNQkkC&pg=PA346 |accessdate=22 October 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite ODNB |first=Elain |last=Harwood |title=Wilson, Sir Colin Alexander St John (1922–2007) |date=January 2011 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/98843 |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/98843 |accessdate=22 October 2014}}</ref> The construction cost of £100,000 was funded by a bequest from William Stone (1857-1958), a former member of the college. The original design was later amended to provide privacy for its occupants, who had found that they could see into each other's rooms from their windows; it still retains appealing views of the surrounding area.<ref name="pet" /><ref name="orton" /> It was refurbished in 2007-08, when solar panels were also installed on the roof.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Peterhouse Annual Record 2007/2008 |publisher=Peterhouse |page=24}}</ref>
The structure is the only tower-style student accommodation in the university<ref>{{cite journal |journal=The Modernist |title=The Hidden Cambridge |first=Marco |last=Iuliano |pages=10–11 |issue=5 |date=September 2012 |issn=2046-2905 |url=http://www.arct.cam.ac.uk/the-hidden-cambridge |accessdate=22 October 2014 |archive-date=5 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305004203/http://www.arct.cam.ac.uk/the-hidden-cambridge |url-status=dead }}</ref> and {{as of|2009|lc=y}} it was the ''de facto'' standard regarding planning decisions related to the maximum height of new developments in the city.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Green Light for New Height? |journal=Cambridge Architecture Gazette |page=2 |issue=59 |year=2009 |issn=1361-3375 |publisher=Cambridge Association of Architects/RIBA |url=http://www.architecture.com/files/ribaprofessionalservices/regions/east/cambsarc200959.pdf |accessdate=22 October 2014}}</ref> The college describes it as "interesting historically as a belated and solitary example in Cambridge of the impact of Corbusier's fantasies of the 1920s of high-rise living for modern man".<ref name="pet" />
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Category:Buildings and structures in Cambridge Category:Grade II listed buildings in Cambridgeshire Category:Residential buildings completed in 1964 Category:Peterhouse, Cambridge Category:Colin St John Wilson buildings Category:Grade II listed residential buildings