Client: St Anne's College, Oxford
St Anne’s College, founded in 1952, can trace its origins back to 1878 and the formation of the Association for the Education of Women in Oxford, better known as the Society of Oxford Home Students. Today, it is one of largest of the Colleges and Halls that admit undergraduates and graduate students to read for degrees within the University of Oxford.
The College is located within the North Oxford Conservation Area, opposite Green Templeton College and the Radcliffe Observatory which is listed Grade l. The College has a long tradition of commissioning high quality modern buildings, beginning with Hartland House (designed by Giles Gilbert-Scott and constructed in 1939), which is Grade II listed. Almost all of the buildings have been awarded design or architectural awards. The Wolfson and Rayne buildings which were designed by Howell, Killick, Partridge and Amis (HKPA) in 1964 are Grade II listed and were awarded a Civic Trust Award.
Gerald Eve LLP advised the College and worked with various architects to deliver additional facilities within this very sensitive constrained site. Gerald Eve LLP obtained planning permission for the Ruth Deech building, designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox, which accommodates 112 en-suite study bedrooms, seminar rooms, a lecture theatre as well as the College’s Porter’s Lodge. The building received an International Architecture Award from the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design.
Gerald Eve LLP was subsequently re-appointed by the College to advise on masterplanning the College’s frontage onto the street. This included securing planning permission and listed building consent for alterations to the Grade II listed Hartland House and the construction of a new Library and Learning Centre design by Fletcher Priest Architects.
The proposals for the Library and Learning Centre involved the demolition of a number of the College’s existing buildings. These included a Gatehouse which was designed by Howell, Killick, Partridge and Amis (HKPA) and constructed in 1966. An application was made by the Twentieth Century Society and supported by English Heritage to list the building. Gerald Eve LLP put forward a case that the building was not of sufficient architectural or historic interest to merit listing. After consideration of all the evidence the Secretary of State upheld the case put forward by Gerald Eve LLP and the building was not listed.
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