Queen’s Lane
Undergraduate Accommodation for First-Years
Who can stay in Queen’s Lane?
- First-year undergraduates are guaranteed a room on the main College site (on Queen’s Lane, just off Oxford’s High Street).
- If you wish to return to live on the main site in your third-year, you can join the room ballot to live in the newly refurbished Besse building or our historic Front Quad.
What is provided in my room?
Almost all rooms have a single bed with mattress, a bed-side cabinet, chest of drawers, desk, desk chair, easy chair, coffee table, wardrobe/hanging space for clothes, desk lamp, book shelf, IT socket, curtains/blinds, and a sink.
What are the Queen’s Lane facilities?
The College mainly provides shared bathrooms with some en-suite rooms as well as shared kitchen facilities for all first-year accommodation.
Alongside accommodation and teaching rooms, the Queen’s Lane site houses a large modern dining hall, common rooms, IT suites, a chapel, music room, laundry facilities, a college library and a bar.
Where will I live?
First-year undergraduates will live in Kelly, Emden, Whitehall and Staircase 8.
Kelly
Named after a John Kelly, a former College Principal (1951-1979), the Kelly building offers single study rooms with shared bathroom and kitchen facilities.
The Kelly building is situated in Forum Gardens, behind the Front Quad, and is home to the Hall’s Living Wall which was installed in 2019 to improve the College site’s biodiversity and community wellbeing. St Edmund Hall is proud to be the first Oxford College to install a living wall and marks our journey to 'green the Hall' both in physical appearance and in its environmental impact.
Emden
Named after a A. B. Emden, a former College Principal (1929-1951), the Emden building offers single study rooms with shared bathroom and kitchen facilities.
It is situated in the rear quad of the College.
Whitehall
Whitehall offers single study bedrooms with shared bathroom and kitchen facilities and is accessible via Forum Gardens to the rear of the College site.
Completed in 1975, it stands on the site of the medieval White Hall which was annexed to St Edmund Hall by 1399/1400.
Staircase 8
Staircase 8 at Queen’s Lane has five en-suite single study rooms with the rest of the rooms with shared bathroom facilities. Students have access to the kitchen facilities in the Whitehall building which is next door to staircase 8.
Staircase 8 is situated between Whitehall and the Besse buildings to the rear of the Queen’s Lane site.
St Edmund Hall Main Site
Accommodation Questions?
Contact the Accommodation Manager at accommodation.officer@seh.ox.ac.uk.