Dorset House was a large house in Headington, Oxford, in Oxfordshire, England.[1]
This villa, known in its later years as Dorset House, was built in 1878 on the south side of London Road, Oxford. It had several names during its lifetime:[1]
- 1878–1899: Ellerslie
- 1899–1920: Hillstow
- 1920–1961: Hillstow Annexe, Headington School
- 1961–2004: Dorset House, School of Occupational Therapy (named after Dorset House, Bristol, where the School of Occupational Therapy had been originally established)[2][3]
Catherine Caughey (1923–2008), who worked on codebreaking at Bletchley Park during World War II, subsequently trained as an occupational therapist at Dorset House.[4]
The house was acquired by Quintain property developers in 2006 and demolished in 2009.[1] Quintain sold the site to Berkeley Homes in September 2010 for £5m. The site was developed as student housing for Oxford Brookes University students during 2011–12.[5] and is managed by Unite, still under the name of Dorset House.[6]
References
edit- ^ a b c "Dorset House, 58 London Road". Headington history: Non-listed buildings. UK: www.headington.org.uk. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
- ^ Bates, Victoria (2021). "Casson, Elizabeth (1881–1954)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/63767. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Friedland, Judith (2011). Restoring the Spirit The Beginnings of Occupational Therapy in Canada, 1890–1930. McGill-Queen's University Press. p. 47. ISBN 978-0773539129.
- ^ Copeland, Jack; Bowen, Jonathan; Sprevak, Mark; Wilson, Robin; et al. (2017). "Notes on Contributors". The Turing Guide. Oxford University Press. p. 476. ISBN 978-0198747833.
- ^ Buratta, Chris (2 April 2011). "Student flats plan gets the go-ahead". Oxford Mail. UK.
- ^ "Dorset House". UK: Oxford Brookes University. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
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