page_title: Trevelyan College, Durham
section_title: Buildings
hierarchical_section_title: Trevelyan College, Durham / Buildings
caption_attribution_description: English: Trevelyan College, Durham.
context_page_description: Trevelyan College is a college of Durham University, England. Founded in 1966, the college takes its name from social historian George Macaulay Trevelyan, Chancellor of the University from 1950 to 1957. Originally an all-female college, the college became fully mixed in 1992.
  Trevelyan is noted in Durham for its hexagon-featuring architecture and for the display of daffodils that surrounds it every spring. As a constituent college of Durham University, Trevelyan is listed as a higher education institution under the Education Reform Act 1988. It is owned and for the most part run by the university.
context_section_description: The internal construction of Trevelyan is unusual, comprising a string of hexagon-shaped blocks, resulting in most rooms containing unusual angles.
  At the opening of the college, its architect John Eastwick-Field said of the design of the college:
  "the building had been irregularly planned in outline but close together in complex. The aim had been to create study bedrooms with individuality, a sense of light and space and overall the effort to foster community sense by grouping the rooms into small units of hexagonal shape onto individual landings."
  — John Eastwick-Field, Architect of the college
  The original blocks are labelled "A" to "J", though there is no I Block to be found and there is also a modern block of ensuite bedrooms, K Block, also called the Macaulay Suite, named after Lord Macaulay, G. M. Trevelyan's great-uncle.
  The layout features rooms based around staircases, landings and courtyards. The entrance hall is referred to as "the Cobbles", although said cobbles are no longer there, having been removed during a recent modern refit. A third of the college was fully refurbished in 2005.
  Approximately 320 fully catered students can be housed in the building, and around 790 are members of the college, making Trevelyan the third-smallest of Durham's seventeen colleges, and the smallest of those maintained by the university council.
  The building's design has won it a Civic Design Award.
caption: Front view
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