St Catherines College, Squash Courts is a Grade I listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1993. College squash courts.
St Catherines College, Squash Courts
- WRENN ID
- peeling-tallow-thyme
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Oxford
- Constituency
- Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1993
- Type
- College squash courts
- Address
- St Catherines College, Squash Courts, Manor Road
- OS grid reference
- SP 523 065
- Coordinates
- 51.75481, -1.24365
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The squash courts at St Catherine's College were built between 1961 and 1966, designed by Arne Jacobsen. They feature narrow buff bricks arranged in a raking stretcher bond and have a flat roof with a square plan. The structure includes vertical brick panels that are alternately advanced and recessed. These courts are an integral part of the planned layout of St Catherine's College.
Local climate
St Catherines College, Squash Courts 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 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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