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study room, with the infill reaching to the second-floor level. The first-floor seminar room
(the original drawing room, at the northeast corner of the 1898 house) was refurbished at this
time.
In 2005, the School of Geography vacated the building for quarters in the Dyson Perrins
Laboratory. 11 Queen Elizabeth House occupied 3 Mansfield Road shortly afterwards. Queen
Elizabeth House is a postgraduate institution and did not require the large lecture room or
open-plan teaching spaces favoured by the School of Geography, which had a large
undergraduate teaching commitment. Equally, Queen Elizabeth House did not require the
laboratory spaces which had been fitted during the School of Geography’s occupation. In
2005-06, several internal partitions were removed, returning some of the original large spaces
to their original dimensions and some exposed services were concealed. In 2007-09,
Worthington’s 1936-38 lecture room extension (including Lankester’s 1966-68 additions to
it) was demolished and replaced with a modern, three-storey extension. This new extension,
designed by Hawkins Brown Architects LLP, connects to the eastern elevation of the original
building, in a similar location to the 1936-38 lecture theatre and the original service wing.
The connection between the new wing and the original building is clad in bronze (as are the
roof and chimneys), easing the transition between the two phases with a distinct but
sympathetic material. This new extension provided offices, open-plan works spaces, and
seminar rooms. The 1966-68 library block to the north was also refurbished at this time.
Queen Elizabeth House continues to occupy 3 Mansfield Road and this serves as its primary
site. When it occupied the building 2005, the institution formally applied its name to 3
Mansfield Road, which is now referred to as Queen Elizabeth House.
11 Estates Services, University of Oxford, Dyson Perrins Laboratory: Conservation Plan (Report, May 2012),
available online:
http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/media/global/wwwadminoxacuk/localsites/estatesdirectorate/documents/conservatio
n/Dyson_Perrins_Laboratory.pdf, accessed 6 th December 2012.
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Conservation Plan