The partnership of Stark & Rowntree dissolved in 1900, partly as a result of failing to win contracts in national competitions - the Govan District Asylum [2] being their only significant award.

The bid of Fred Rowntree & Sons of London was successful and the firm was appointed architect to the University.

After a 2-year hiatus due to political unrest, the University started lectures in 1913 and initiated a program of constructing more than twenty buildings.

[4] In what turned out to be his last major assignment, Fred Rowntree designed the street layout for Jordans, Buckinghamshire, and many of the properties within it, from his home and office at 11 Hammersmith Terrace in Chiswick, between 1916 and his death in 1927.

His brother Douglas Rowntree lived at the property called Further Pegs in Puers Lane, Jordans, Buckinghamshire.