Edited sentence: However, the estate was much reduced from that expected and these grand plans failed to materialize.Much of the northern end of the Pembroke Leys was sold to the University and is now home to scientific departments and museums on the Downing Site.The architect William Wilkins was tasked by the trustees of the Downing estate to design the plan for the college.The area south of Downing Street was originally known as Pembroke Leys, a boggy area to the south of Cambridge in medieval times.This was acquired for Dowing College.Wilkins, a devotee of the neoclassical architectural style, designed the first campus-based college layout in the world with a magnificent entrance planned on Downing Street, reaching back to form the largest quadrangle in Cambridge, extending to Lensfield Road far to the south