Dorset House, Oxfordshire Explained

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:

• 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. 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]

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Notes and References

1. Web site: Dorset House, 58 London Road . Headington history: Non-listed buildings . www.headington.org.uk . UK . 29 January 2018 .
2. Bates. Victoria. Casson, Elizabeth (1881–1954). Oxford. 2021. 10.1093/ref:odnb/63767.
3. Book: Friedland, Judith. Restoring the Spirit The Beginnings of Occupational Therapy in Canada, 1890–1930 . 2011 . 47. McGill-Queen's University Press. 978-0773539129.
4. Book: Jack Copeland . Copeland . Jack . Jonathan Bowen . Bowen . Jonathan . Sprevak . Mark . Robin Wilson (mathematician) . Wilson . Robin . etal. . . 2017 . 978-0198747833 . 476 . Notes on Contributors .
5. News: 2 April 2011 . Student flats plan gets the go-ahead . Chris . Buratta . . UK .
6. Web site: Dorset House . . UK . 29 January 2018 .