Chevithorne housed the English department in 1965 and continued to do so until 1983. It was a large country house with significant land on the north side of the A30 opposite the main gates into the college. I think the images I've included here are of the right building but never having seen it I cannot be certain - so if you know better please do let me know. "Chevithorne" is no longer included as one of the buildings at the college; it may be that it has been demolished or redeveloped and renamed.

 Huntersdale was not included in the campus guide for 1965 but was well established by 1970. It is a large country house about a mile south of the campus and had been a grace & favour residence until the college acquired it in 1967. It is in 21 acres of woodland and was used between 1967 and 1987 to house the Botany department.

Alderhurst was another large mansion house in substantial grounds to the south of the campus that was bought in 1964 and became home to the Zoology department.

It was sold in 1991

I always felt sorry for those Kingswood residents who had to get to Alderhurst or Huntersdale for 9 am lectures as it almost doubled the distance I needed to do to get to the campus.

Chestnuts was a victorian house on the opposite side of the road to the campus and almost in line with the Boilerhouse. It was built in 1890 and bought by the college in 1962. Initially it was used for student accommodation and was subsequently used to house post-graduate students. Yet another building where my knowledge is depressingly zero. If anyone knows if the picture actually is Chestnuts then please let me know. 

The Beeches and Chestnuts were two victorian houses on the north side of the A30 almost across the road from the Boilerhouse. They were located either side of Chestnut drive near the Packhorse pub (was it called the Packhorse in those days?) Beeches was built in circa 1890 and bought by the college in 1962. It became home to the German department who moved out of Founders. In 1975 the German department moved to the Arts building and Beeches was then used for postgraduate accommodation.

I can find no picture of Elm Lodge nor many references to it anywhere but I did have a message from Pete Bishop to say

"Before living in Cameron I lived here from September 1969-June 1970 this was a house for about 12 (men only)in the grounds of botanical gardens. This was very near to the 'Happy Man Pub'in Englefield Green.
Had some great times here. Really interesting when we emptied the contents of a fellow students room into the cellar where there were very interesting items of female graffitti from the days of a womens only college :-) the bish"

So this was another building on the north side of the A30 but 'who else has any stories they can share, and does anyone, anywhere have a picture?

This single story pre-fab was put up in about 1968. It was just in front of the Williams building. It was used to house the links to the mainframe systems that were installed elsewhere in the University of London. It housed its own PDP computer that I remember programming using little toggle switches at the front of the box. The building provided a study-space for computer science students and as well as providing links to the mainframe you could also pick up your printed output her. The Computer Science department remained based in Founders until they moved into the McCrea building in 1986.

Sutherland House was built in the early 1800's and is a Grade II listed building. It was purchased by the College in 1962 and used by the Research and Project division of the Physics department until 1984. I recall having a number of lectures / seminars there when I was doing a course module in micro-electronics.  In 1984 it was used by the Drama department and then became the headquarters for the Drama and Theatre Studies department.

Previously known as "Crossland's Bungalow" there was a hasty conversion to provide a meeting space where students could get together and socialise. Whereas prior to the arrival of male students gathering in each others rooms was perfectly acceptable it didn't really fit with the mixed-sex community that RHC was to become.So for the first time there was a location where students could meet and buy an alcoholic drink.

Other accommodation included “Glanty” – oft talked about but rarely seen- and the “married quarters" (whose name I forget - was it Highfields). Some second year students also spent time in local flats and other accommodation – so let’s hear some tales about what it used to be like to live out of halls and actually doing your own catering.

With the arrival of male undergraduates in 1965 the college needed somewhere to put them. The 18th century mansion was purchased in 1964 and bought into use for the 1965 intake. This men’s hall was relatively isolated from the main campus being about a mile away through residential streets and lanes. The route generally took one past a local hostelry called The Happy Man which could add an hour on to the journey if you meandered in rather than past it.