New College Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 March 1967. Library.
New College Hall
- WRENN ID
- other-plaster-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 March 1967
- Type
- Library
- Address
- New College Hall, B5345, St. Bees
- OS grid reference
- NX 969 121
- Coordinates
- 54.49385, -3.593
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
New College Hall, originally built as a library in 1863 by architect William Butterfield, is designed in the Gothic style. The building is constructed from rough-dressed sandstone blocks, featuring dressed quoins and bands on the plinth, along with a concave eaves course. Its roof is covered with graduated slate and has a scalloped ridge, along with stone coping, kneelers, and an apex cross at the south ridge. A prominent stone chimney projects from the center of the east side.
The hall is two storeys high, with a single-storey bay window on the north return. The entrance, located to the left on the west side, has a pointed arch. The ground-floor windows on the west side and south return are mullioned, each with two lights that have trefoiled ogee heads. On the first floor, there is one window on each return with similar lights, featuring quatrefoils in the spandrels beneath pointed arches. The west side has four first-floor windows, three of which have inner trefoil heads.
Local climate
New College Hall sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,580 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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