Wills Hall

Wills Hall is a university hall of residence built between 1925 and 1928 by Sir George Oatley for Henry Herbert Wills. It features limestone ashlar and squared Lias stone with slate hipped and gabled roofs, arranged in a quadrangular plan. The building is designed in the Elizabethan Domestic Revival style, reminiscent of an Oxford college.

The structure includes a single-storey gatehouse with a one-window range, a two-storey dining hall with a six-window range, and a three-storey hall of residence along the remaining three sides of the quadrangle. The gatehouse is slightly angled and has a wide Tudor-arched carriage archway with heavy oak double doors, topped by a stepped parapet. Behind the gatehouse is a three-storey gabled stair tower featuring mullion windows.

To the left of the gatehouse is the dining hall, which has four-light mullion and transom windows separated by buttresses with scrolled brackets, a string course adorned with Tudor flowers, and a parapet. The sides of the quadrangle are marked by five large gables, interspersed with dormers, and feature ranges of casement mullion windows beneath continuous drip courses, paired attic windows, and Tudor-arched doors on the right side of each gable, along with large ridge stacks.

Inside, the gatehouse hall is open and flagged, featuring a large framed newel stair. The dining hall has panelled walls and a Queen post roof, while the fully-panelled senior common room includes a Tudor-arched fireplace.