Wolfson Hall, Bracken Library and Bevin Rooms Churchill College is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1993. Library. 1 related planning application.

Wolfson Hall, Bracken Library and Bevin Rooms Churchill College

WRENN ID
quiet-cupola-umber
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cambridge
Constituency
Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 March 1993
Type
Library
Address
Wolfson Hall, Bracken Library and Bevin Rooms Churchill College, Storeys Way
OS grid reference
TL 437 592
Coordinates
52.21252, 0.10247
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Wolfson Hall, Bracken Library, and Bevin Rooms at Churchill College is a library that includes reading rooms and a hall, built between 1961 and 1968 by Sheppard Robson and Partners. The building is made of brown brick and concrete and has two storeys, featuring a double-height hall on the east side and the library on the west. The east elevation showcases a projecting semicircular staircase on the north side and a three-bay window with closely spaced precast concrete vertical sunshades. The external door is made of sculpted metal by Geoffrey Clarke. This building is an integral part of the planned scheme for Churchill College, designed by N. Taylor in the context of Cambridge's New Architecture.

Local climate

Wolfson Hall, Bracken Library and Bevin Rooms Churchill College sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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