University of Exeter Halls of Residence
The university developed from the 19th century Royal Albert Memorial College, and by 1902 it was apparent that accommodation was needed for the female students with a house in Castle Street being privately run as a hostel for them.
[2] In 1902, two houses in St. David's Hill were leased by the Diocesan Council for Religious Education as a hostel for female students.
The college bought the field in 1912, intending it to be used for a hall of residence for male students, but this never occurred and the land was sold for housing in 1999.
Containing a TV room, laundry facilities and a bar called 'The Badger' (in use intermittently as of 2010[update]), the hall was a catered residence with a small kitchenette on each floor.
In 2013, Hope Hall and Lazenby were both refurbished to provide additional office and research space for university staff.
As of 2014, Hope Hall accommodates research and administrative staff from the College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, postgraduate students of the Business School and the Health, Safety and Environment Office.
The Badger Bar in Hope Hall remains as a social and networking space and the dining room is an open plan office for the business school.
The building is in a deteriorating state - as of 2015 the glass has been removed from the verandas for safety, slates have slipped from the roof and the plaster on lath ceiling has collapsed in one upstairs room visible through a window.
Spreytonway's yard and outbuildings remain in use by the grounds maintenance team and as parking for the university's minibus fleet.
Spreytonway is a locally listed building and is classified as having a positive contribution to townscape in the university's 2010 Streatham Campus Master Plan Framework.
[8] Lopes (pronounced "Lopez") Hall was originally a large Victorian Gothic villa known as "Highlands", built in 1866.
After the university bought it and the surrounding seven acres of land in 1930,[9] the architect E. Vincent Harris added a brick Queen Anne-style extension and it was opened by United States Ambassador Robert Bingham in October 1933, for women students only.
Ransom Pickard has single beds, a desk, wardrobe and sink to each room and since the refurbishment now falls under the category of 'single enhanced' in terms of accommodation.
The central block was equipped with a new porter's lodge, a modern canteen and a renovated hall bar named 'The Boot', and a shop.
[15] The university hopes that these brand new halls will enable them to increase student intake, and thus maintain the institution's 9th-place ranking within the country.
[18] Designed in a 'country house' style by E. Vincent Harris, Mardon Hall opened in 1933,[10] and was extensively refurbished in 1996, but retains its wood-panelled library and grand staircase.
A wartime German map, held by the Devon Record Office, has the adjacent Reed Hall and the university's Washington Singer Laboratories marked as military targets, but not Mardon.
Other self-catered residences both on- and off-campus include Bonhay House, Clydesdale Court, Clydesdale Rise, James Owen Court, King Edward Court, King Edward Studio, Nash Grove, St Germans (University owned), Rowe House (University owned), Point Exe (Signpost Homes), Northernhay, and Northfield (UNITE) Consisting of College House, South Cloisters, New Nancherrow and Old Nancherrow, all accommodation on St Luke's Campus shares a single halls committee, and is often considered as simply "St Luke's halls" by non-residents.
As of 2011, Rowancroft consists of a total of 386 places in various self-catered accommodation on sites to the east of the city centre, close to St Luke's Campus and the suburb of Heavitree.
Together with Cornwall House on the main part of the campus, it formed a test bed for the retrofitting of external wall insulation to improve its thermal efficiency.
In the 1980s the lower part of the grounds on the corner of Barley Lane and Dunsford Hill was developed as Cadogan Court, a nursing home.
There was controversy in autumn 2005 when the university applied to build 36 flats and 54 houses on the site; proposals that were bitterly opposed by the local residents.
