The Queens College, West Range is a Grade I listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1954. A C18 College building.

The Queens College, West Range

WRENN ID
waiting-steeple-wax
Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
Oxford
Constituency
Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 January 1954
Type
College building
Address
The Queens College, West Range, Front Quadrangle
OS grid reference
SP 517 063
Coordinates
51.7531, -1.25141
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Queen's College West Range, built between 1709 and 1711 by William Townesend with Jeremiah Franklin as the carpenter, features an inner facade that has been refaced. This building includes the Provost's Lodging and Common Rooms. It suffered a fire and was partly rebuilt in 1778, then again in 1886. Further alterations took place in 1959.

Local climate

The Queens College, West Range 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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