St Johns College, The Beehives is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1993. Student accommodation. 21 related planning applications.

St Johns College, The Beehives

WRENN ID
floating-truss-tarn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Oxford
Constituency
Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 March 1993
Type
Student accommodation
Address
St Johns College, The Beehives, St Giles, OX1 3JP
OS grid reference
SP 512 067
Coordinates
51.75682, -1.25859
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Beehives at St John's College is a block of student rooms built between 1958 and 1960, designed by Michael Powers of Architects' Co-Partnership. The building features Portland stone ashlar cladding and has pitched blue slate roofs. It consists of two storeys plus a basement, with a plan that comprises interlocking hexagons. The east and west elevations are saw-toothed, while the northern walls are blind, and the windows are oriented southwards. The large windows include obscured panels beneath them. The pointed roofs are topped with crowning spikes on the projecting staircase roofs.

Local climate

St Johns College, The Beehives 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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