Merton College, Oxford

The Finlay Building accommodates the main administrative offices of Merton College together with a basement floor of storage and archive. Inserted between a series of medieval structures, it creates a new courtyard opposite the College's main entrance. Defining the College's western perimeter, it rises above the medieval stone wall that forms the boundary with Corpus Christi College. Facades are a combination of irregular coursed freestone under a pitched roof section and a smooth-faced ashlar extension where a flat-roofed element reaches out to the wall of a neighbouring medieval tennis court.