Sedley Taylor Road
A short residential road in west Cambridge, built on Trinity College land and named after one of its professors.
Sedley Taylor Road is a residential road in west Cambridge. The road has a reputation for high house prices and has been seen as among the priciest in Britain and the priciest in East Anglia. That is a matter of reputation rather than a measured fact. The road was laid out on Trinity College land and carries the name of Sedley Taylor (1834-1920), a professor of the college.
Houses and numbering
Number 31 was once the home of two Nobel Prize-winning physicists, and number 12, called Tretherbyn, belonged to an explorer and archaeologist. Alcantara, a house near the southern end, is Grade II listed. The architect S. E. Urwin built number 22 for his own use.
The numbering is slightly unusual. The west side runs from 1 at the north end to 23 at the south, while numbers 24 to 44 belong on the opposite, eastern side. No house had the number 30 until 2009. The road's postcodes were altered in 2007, with CB2 2xx replaced by CB2 8xx, so older documents may carry a postcode that no longer applies.
Recent changes
Houses on the east side once had direct access to the playing fields of The Perse School, but a rabbit fence erected in 2011 ended that. In 2009 traffic-calming measures, half-width "gates" and humps, were installed. In 2012 residents unsuccessfully opposed a new sports pavilion on land west of the road. A solicitor's widow lives on the road in the book Grantchester Grind.
Sources: Wikipedia: Sedley Taylor Road · Wikidata: Sedley Taylor Road (Q7445353)