Worcester College, Entrance Screen and Gates on Beaumont Street is a Grade I listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1972. A C18 Gate, entrance screen.
Worcester College, Entrance Screen and Gates on Beaumont Street
- WRENN ID
- bitter-gargoyle-river
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Oxford
- Constituency
- Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 June 1972
- Type
- Gate, entrance screen
- Period
- C18
- OS grid reference
- SP 509 065
- Coordinates
- 51.75492, -1.26322
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Worcester College features an entrance screen and gates on Beaumont Street, dating from 1485. The structure includes a dwarf stone wall topped with a wrought-iron screen. The entrance is marked by wrought-iron double gates that have an overthrow.
Local climate
Worcester College, Entrance Screen and Gates on Beaumont Street 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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