Cherry Tree Court Link Building and the Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall, Cambridge

Client – Trinity Hall
Date of Completion – 2000

The space under the 16th century Old Library had been Fellows’ sets until 1934. It subsequently became the JCR and finally the College Undergraduate Library. When the Jerwood Library was built in 1998 it vacated a potentially beautiful room which was restored and became the Graham Storey Room.

The College had long wondered how to improve access to its public rooms on the first floor.  When the kitchens were modernised in 1998 the opportunity was taken to improve WC facilities and add a corridor and staircase. With the creation of the Graham Storey Room, the need to link these upstairs public rooms with a lift and staircase became still more important.

The solution was a small connecting building slipped into the previously rather unattractive space between the car park entrance and the end of the Old Library building.  As a bonus, for the first time access to the Old Library became more available, especially to disabled people, so that more college members were able to visit the college’s most beautiful and historic space.