Somerville College, West Building is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1972. College.

Somerville College, West Building

WRENN ID
brooding-timber-willow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Oxford
Constituency
Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 June 1972
Type
College
OS grid reference
SP 509 069
Coordinates
51.75891, -1.26372
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Somerville College's West Building, located at the northwest corner, was designed by H C Moore and constructed in two phases in 1887 and 1895. The later phase included the addition of a lodge at the Walton Street Gate. To the northeast of the West Building, a gymnasium was built in 1890, which was converted into a lecture room in 1922.

Local climate

Somerville College, West Building 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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