St Annes College, Wolfson and Rayne Buildings is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1993. College buildings.

St Annes College, Wolfson and Rayne Buildings

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Oxford
Constituency
Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 March 1993
Type
College buildings
Address
St Annes College, Wolfson and Rayne Buildings, Woodstock Road
OS grid reference
SP 511 072
Coordinates
51.76195, -1.26098
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Wolfson and Rayne Buildings at St Anne's College are two connected blocks of college rooms built between 1960 and 1969 by the architects Howell, Killick, Partridge, and Amis. The buildings are constructed from precast concrete and board-marked site cast concrete, featuring flat roofs. Each block has four storeys, with convex sides that curve around a central circular staircase. The elevations include alternate bays with canted out balconies that have glass fronts, and full-height windows that are recessed behind them. Between these balconies, there are smaller, square-headed windows that are flush with the wall. The ground floors facing the main college quad consist partly of strip windows and are partly open. There is also a single-storey open walkway link that has a concrete roof.

Local climate

St Annes College, Wolfson and Rayne Buildings 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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