Bishop Cosin'S Hall

Bishop Cosin's Hall is a house that was originally the Archdeacon's Inn and later served as a university hall of residence. It dates from around 1700 and is constructed of brick in a varied English garden wall bond, with rendered brick and painted ashlar dressings, topped by a stone flagged roof and featuring banded brick chimneys. The building has three storeys and seven bays.

The entrance features a double half-glazed door located in the third bay, set within a large and elaborate case. This case includes a panelled curved reveal under a rococo shell in a round arch, flanked by fluted Ionic pilasters that support entablatures with a leaf-carved pulvinated frieze. Above this, a high segmental modillioned arch springs, with its tympanum filled with leaf carving. The sash windows are adorned with fine glazing bars, shaped brick aprons, projecting stone sills, and stone-keyed flat brick arches. The parapet has flat stone coping, and darker brick is used at the floor levels. There are four transverse ridge chimneys and round cast-iron tie-ends, along with Sun and Phoenix insurance plaques.

The interior has been converted into flats, featuring a central stair with winders and long landings, and a renewed balustrade. Some two-panelled doors with architraves remain.