Bull Hostel, St Catharine's College is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1950. College building.

Bull Hostel, St Catharine's College

WRENN ID
sombre-attic-finch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cambridge
Constituency
Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 April 1950
Type
College building
Address
Bull Hostel, St Catharine's College, CB2 1RL
OS grid reference
TL 447 582
Coordinates
52.20338, 0.11738
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bull Hostel at St Catharine's College was built in 1828 and is a four-storey building with attics. It is constructed of stone ashlar and features a mansard slate roof. The front facade is symmetrically designed with four bays, where the second and eighth bays project slightly. The ground floor is rusticated, and there is a moulded cornice below the parapet. The windows above the ground floor have moulded architraves, and the first-floor windows are adorned with cornices and balconies. The entrance includes a stone ashlar porch with plain piers, moulded cappings, and entablatures. Originally designed with seven bays, the eighth bay is a modern addition that projects over the re-aligned King's Lane. Inside, the building retains an original staircase and many enriched plaster cornices.

Local climate

Bull Hostel, St Catharine's 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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