Canal House is a Grade II* listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1954. A Georgian Educational building. 3 related planning applications.
Canal House
- WRENN ID
- still-plaster-solstice
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Oxford
- Constituency
- Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1954
- Type
- Educational building
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Canal House, Bulwark's Lane, St Peter's College, OX1 1LU
- OS grid reference
- SP 510 062
- Coordinates
- 51.75238, -1.26127
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Canal House, built between 1827 and 1829, was designed by architect Richard Tawney and is currently used by St Peter's College, a role it has held since 1949. The building features three storeys on its south west and north west sides, constructed from Headington ashlar with a rusticated ground floor. It has Doric pilasters and a moulded cornice above the top storey, topped with a hipped roof made of Welsh slate. The south west side has five sash windows set in plain stone reveals. On the north west side, there is a tetrastyle Doric portico with a pediment. Above this portico is a relief sculpted in Coade stone, depicting Britannia holding a shield that displays the arms of the University alongside those of the City. The background features the church of St Mary the Virgin and the Radcliffe Camera, while a barge is shown in front of the Radcliffe Camera, either on a canal or at a wharf.
Local climate
Canal House 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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