Lady Margaret Hall, The Wordsworth Building is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1954. Educational building.

Lady Margaret Hall, The Wordsworth Building

WRENN ID
patient-brick-finch
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
OS grid reference
SP 516 076
Coordinates
51.76532, -1.25347
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Wordsworth Building at Lady Margaret Hall was built in 1896 as a detached wing, designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield. It is constructed in the Dutch style using red brick. The building has three storeys, four windows, and four gables, topped with a red tile roof.

Local climate

Lady Margaret Hall, The Wordsworth 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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