Merton College, The Wardens House is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1972. College. 1 related planning application.

Merton College, The Wardens House

WRENN ID
shifting-copper-brook
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Oxford
Constituency
Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 June 1972
Type
College
Address
Merton College, The Wardens House, 7 and 8, Merton Street, OX1 4JD
OS grid reference
SP 517 061
Coordinates
51.75164, -1.25143
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Warden's House at Merton College dates back to 1485 and was designed by Basil Champneys in 1908. This building is constructed from Weldon stone and is designed in the Elizabethan style. It features a doubled bowed front with a central door and has a slate roof.

Local climate

Merton College, The Wardens 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 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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