Somerville College, Hall and Maitland Block is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1954. College.

Somerville College, Hall and Maitland Block

WRENN ID
graven-frieze-pigeon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Oxford
Constituency
Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 January 1954
Type
College
OS grid reference
SP 510 069
Coordinates
51.75935, -1.26225
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Somerville College's Hall and Maitland Block was built in 1911 to the design of Edmund Fisher. It is located south of the original house and faces west. The building is connected with Walton House, also known as the Jackson wing.

Local climate

Somerville College, Hall and Maitland Block 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 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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