The Screen Between the Clarendon Building and the Bodleian Library Fronting Catte Street is a Grade I listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1972. A C18 Screen.
The Screen Between the Clarendon Building and the Bodleian Library Fronting Catte Street
- WRENN ID
- small-clay-vetch
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Oxford
- Constituency
- Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 June 1972
- Type
- Screen
- Address
- The Screen Between the Clarendon Building and the Bodleian Library Fronting Catte Street, Radcliffe Square
- OS grid reference
- SP 515 064
- Coordinates
- 51.75448, -1.25417
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Screen between the Clarendon Building and the Bodleian Library, located along Catte Street, is an early 18th-century structure. It features six ashlar piers topped with cornices. Between the piers is a dwarf wall that supports a wrought-iron screen and wrought-iron gates, which include an overthrow. This screen is part of the significant group of buildings in Radcliffe Square, which serves as the central hub of the University of Oxford.
Local climate
The Screen Between the Clarendon Building and the Bodleian Library Fronting Catte 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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