St Catherines College, Music Room is a Grade I listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1993. A 1961-66 Music room. 1 related planning application.

St Catherines College, Music Room

WRENN ID
crooked-basalt-sable
Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
Oxford
Constituency
Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 March 1993
Type
Music room
Period
1961-66
Address
St Catherines College, Music Room, Manor Road, OX1 3UJ
OS grid reference
SP 521 065
Coordinates
51.75538, -1.2452
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Music Room at St Catherine's College, built between 1961 and 1966, is a notable example of modern architecture designed by Arne Jacobsen. Constructed from narrow buff sandlime brick arranged in a raking stretcher bond, the building features a flat roof and a centralized plan consisting of two hexagons, one positioned inside the other. The walls are angled and blind, with vertical breaks on each side that include vertical glazing between the inner and outer skins. This music room is an integral part of the planned layout of St Catherine's College.

Local climate

St Catherines College, Music Room sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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