Cotuit Hall celebrates a longstanding history of being a home for students of all ages. Cotuit Hall has been at the heart of the Oxford’s education programmes for 100 years and was first used for teaching in 1916 by Headington School.
1890Cotuit Hall was designed by H. W. Moore and built by Parnell & Sons of Rugby. The building was formerly known as Napier House, and it took its name from Arthur Sampson Napier (1853–1916), |
1916–1930Cotuit Hall in Pullens Lane was the junior section of the Headington School. |
1930sCotuit Hall was occupied by Redvers Opie, Fellow and Tutor in Economics at Magdalen College. |
1940–1955Cotuit Hall was the City of Oxford Children’s Home. |
1950sCotuit Hall used as a private house again, occupied by the Revd D. B.Jones. |
1962Cotuit Hall was a Hostel of the College of Technology, which later became the Polytechnic and then Oxford Brookes University. |
1966Erection of a threestorey building to provide residential accommodation for students and singlestorey building for games/lecture room and ancillary accommodation approved. Cotuit Hall itself was occupied by the Oxford College of Garden Design. |
2011The entire Cotuit Hall site sold by Oxford Brookes University to EF Academy. |
