Clifton College, North East Wing is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 November 1966. Science lecture theatre, classrooms.

Clifton College, North East Wing

WRENN ID
sharp-gable-rook
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bristol, City of
Constituency
Bristol Central MP: Carla Denyer (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 November 1966
Type
Science lecture theatre, classrooms
Address
Clifton College, North East Wing, College Road
OS grid reference
ST 570 738
Coordinates
51.46233, -2.62
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The North East Wing of Clifton College in Bristol is a science lecture theatre that has been converted into classrooms. Built around 1898 by architects Hansom and Bond, the building features snecked Brandon Hill Grit with limestone dressings, cross axial ridge stacks, and a slate roof adorned with bands of hexagonal slates. It has a single-depth plan that forms the northeast side of the college quadrangle and is designed in a Collegiate Tudor Gothic Revival style, incorporating Decorated Gothic Revival-style tracery.

The structure is two storeys high with an attic and basement, presenting a ten-window range to the quadrangle. It connects Wilson Tower with Guthrie Memorial Chapel. The ground floor has paired cross windows separated by single-storey buttresses, while the first floor features two flat-headed three-light mullion and transom windows on the left, and three two-centred arched windows that rise to the right, with a sill band that follows the incline of the former lecture theatre's floor. The left side has a crenellated parapet and two large three-light lead-clad dormers, with gables above the right-hand windows. The steep roof includes diagonally-set stacks with linked cornices.

On the northwest gabled end, there are basement windows arranged in a three-window range, along with a large stepped window in the attic. Inside, there is a ground-floor passage leading to the quadrangle side, with classrooms located behind it. The building features stone dogleg stairs, and the former lecture theatre has been divided by an inserted floor, showcasing an arch-braced roof.

Local climate

Clifton College, North East Wing receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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