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Linacre College

Student Houses

Brewer Street—front, back and inside. “I found a new group of friends in the character-forming Linacre house in Brewer Street, where water

some mes dripped into the kitchen, the garden was a wilderness comprising equal quan es of

philadelphus and brambles and the curfew bell at Christ Church struck 101 mes each evening at 9.05pm.”

105 Banbury Road, or Ursula Hicks House, was

enabled by the legacy of Ursula Hicks, Emeritus

Fellow and widow of Sir John Hicks, Economist.

The Rhodes Building (above and below) which

was opened in June 2002, is close to both Peter

Holloway House and the new house.

At one me Linacre students lived in three

houses in Bradmore Road. Across the Parks

from Linacre, they were par cularly popular

with families. Now only numbers 5 and 8 are

used by the College.

Part of Linacre’s commitment to offer suitable

accommoda on for all first-year students, the

College has just purchased a new house off the

Iffley Road, to be named Neil Fraser-Bell House,

which will be renovated and available to

students in 2013.

The Beeches, a Linacre house since 1971, and

currently opposite Oxford’s only Olympic Gold Peter Holloway House, named a er the first

postbox. Domes c Bursar was opened in Autumn 2003.