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Burrell's Field provides student accommodation as part of

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. It is located between Queen's Road and Grange Road. It comprises three parts: # Four Edwardian houses, including Whewell House (built for L. F. L. Oppenheim,

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, later home of Major-General

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) and Silbury House. # Adrian House and Butler House, built in the 1970s; # A new development completed in 1995 by Sir Richard MacCormac of MJP Architects, and opened by

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.Trinity College Burrell's Field site, Cambridge
MacCormac Jamieson Prichard, 1997. This complex provides accommodation for students and a small number of fellows, along with a common room and other amenities. Although not built around

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, the newer buildings do follow Cambridge tradition in that all rooms are accessed via staircases rather than corridors. Burrell's Field adjoins the Fellows' garden and is very close to the

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