Wessex Lane Halls

The students organise their own social events, sports teams and deal with welfare issues through the JCR (Junior Common Room) committee which is elected each year.

[3] It was originally the manor house of the Parish of South Stoneham, which stretched along the River Itchen from the Bargate in Southampton City Centre to Eastleigh.

The house itself was constructed in 1708, as the family home of Edmund Dummer, the former Surveyor of the Navy, and has been attributed to Nicholas Hawksmoor,[4] while its gardens were laid out after 1722 by Capability Brown[5] (though very little of the original landscaping remains).

The extension was designed as a stop-gap measure until the full development of the Montefiore and Glen Eyre sites could be pushed through, with an anticipated lifespan of just 15 years.

As the tower was originally built using asbestos, its decommission and deconstruction has provided a technical stumbling block to redevelopment of the South Stoneham site.

The university held public exhibitions in June 2018 and released a strategic document detailing the future plans for the Wessex Lane site.

This will involve refurbishing and repurposing South Stoneham House, including replacement student accommodation keeping within the distinctive setting of the site.

The Old Quad is of traditional design in the neo-Georgian architecture style and contains study bedrooms grouped around staircases and most of the communal JCR facilities.

In the 1920s Florence Clark Miller was Warden of Montefiore Hall, and "had the difficult task of encouraging all those women students whose homes were in Southampton to take full part in the life of the University College".

These original structures are now known as Montefiore A and B, and house approximately three hundred first year students in study bedrooms on individual corridor flats, with shared kitchens and other facilities, ranged over 5 floors.

[citation needed] Over the next few decades two other developments took place which replaced the old playing fields with the largest student residential centre in Southampton.

Recently Montefiore 4 was added (replacing the link corridor and management offices between A and B blocks) which brings an additional 150 en-suite rooms, and disabled facilities to the complex.