St Catherines College, Boat House is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1993. Boathouse.

St Catherines College, Boat House

WRENN ID
kindled-mullion-russet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Oxford
Constituency
Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 March 1993
Type
Boathouse
Address
St Catherines College, Boat House, Manor Road
OS grid reference
SP 521 068
Coordinates
51.75772, -1.24615
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The boathouse for St Catherine's College, built between 1961 and 1966, is a two-storey structure designed by Arne Jacobsen. The building features a brick ground floor and an upper floor clad in painted metal, topped with a flat roof. The end wall of the upper storey is entirely glazed, providing a modern aesthetic.

Local climate

St Catherines College, Boat House 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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