Accommodation

Built in 1997 for St Anne’s graduate students, Robert Saunders House can accommodate up to 90 graduate students in 15 flats that vary in size. Room agreements are for 42 weeks per year (including Christmas and Easter). Extensions beyond 42 weeks are approved where possible.

Each flat consists of a communal kitchen, shower room, and three to seven single bedrooms. The bedrooms have ample electric sockets, ethernet connections, a sink, and bedding is provided. There are common rooms for watching television, reading newspapers, or general socialising (including table tennis, table football, pool and darts).

There is a residential Manager and three Wardens, who share the duties of Warden to give 24-hour cover. There are laundry facilities available for students, and all public areas are cleaned by College staff.

Robert Saunders House is located in Summertown (a suburb of Oxford), close to a large range of shops, bars, restaurants, banks and a public library, and is two kilometres from the College.

All students have their own pigeon hole, although there are also pigeon holes in the Middle Common Room at the College site (which is for the exclusive use of graduate students).

The City Council has prohibited parking in this area for all residents, and students are actively discouraged from bringing cars to Oxford.

The rent is £106.43 per week in 2009/10.

Some graduate students are also housed in the recently opened Eleanor Plumer House (35 Banbury Road). There are rooms for 13 students here, as well as the main graduate common room (with a tv, stereo, DVD, video, Nintendo Wii and PS2), a work room with computer facilities, a kitchen, lockers and showers.

Meals

Students have the use of kitchens in both Robert Saunders House and Eleanor Plumer House, but for serious meals many use the main dining hall, which serves breakfast, lunch and dinner as well as brunch at weekends, which is extremely popular.

We encourage communal dining, as it plays an important part in collegiate life. Most meals are self-service and informal, but several times during term there is a formal dinner in hall when our undergraduates and guests can dress to impress.

In 2008 College opened STACS (St Anne’s Coffee Shop), open from 9.30am to 6.30pm during term time, and serving excellent coffee (in various permutations), muffins, sandwiches, paninis and the like in comfortable surroundings.

Payment for meals is done using your University card (there is no need to carry cash for food in College) and food is both excellent (our chefs have won prizes) and very reasonable.

Meal Times

Breakfast: 8–9.30am (week days)
Lunch: 12.15–1.45pm (week days)
Dinner: 6.15–7.45pm (week days)
Brunch: 11am–1pm (Saturday and Sunday)