Exeter College

There is no designated blue badge parking. The College has a small amount of parking in Margary Quadrangle on the main site. Anyone needing to use a car should discuss their needs with the College in advance. There is no College parking at the Cohen Quad or Exeter House.

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Turl Street
The entrance on Turl Street is through one of the large double gates. This gate is normally left open during the day. At night the door is locked and entry is through a small cut out door. This door has a lintel which is 23 cm high. The door opens to 77 cm. The door is quite heavy. The Porters are on duty 24 hours a day and will open the large gate for anyone who cannot manage the cut out door. 
The doorbell is 138 cm from the ground. The access control underneath the bell is 120 cm from the ground. The latch inside the door is 153 cm from the floor. 
Cohen Quad
The entrance from the pavement on Walton Street into the Cohen Quad is level. The door into this building is quite heavy. The door opens to 101 cm. The outside access controls for this door are 87 cm from the floor. Inside the exit push button is 117 cm from the floor.
Vehicle Entrance 
The vehicle entrance is on Broad Street and gives access into Margary Quad. This is a powered gate. The bell for this gate is 157 cm from the ground. Visitors need to get out of the vehicle to ring the bell or can ring the Lodge using a mobile phone to request pre-arranged access. This gate has a cut out door with a lintel which is 21 cm high. This door opens to 80 cm and is quite heavy. People who cannot manage this door can use the main entrance on Turl Street where there is assistance available.

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The College has four accessible toilets. Please note that some of the toilets were not built to current accessibility standards and as such some do not have features such as, easy to use door handles, and easy reach sinks. 
There are locations without accessible toilets such as the Dining Hall Library and Bar. Also the JCR and the MCR. The accessible toilet on the Turl Street site can be reached by using a gentle slope. Two of the three toilets in the Cohen Quad have level access. The toilet next to the Common Room can only be reached by using the stairs or a lift. All the toilet doors open to 88 cm.

The accessible toilets are in:
•    Rector’s Lodgings Turl Street: 201 cm x 147 cm
•    Common Room Cohen Quad: 182 cm x 157 cm
•    Kloppenburg Seminar Room Cohen Quad: 134 cm x 192 cm
•    FitzHugh Auditorium Cohen Quad: 157 cm x 137 cm

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Lifts
There are three lifts at Exeter. One is a platform lift which is in staircase 3 and gives access to the Dining Hall. The other two are passenger lifts and are in the Cohen Quad.
Dining Hall Lift
This lift is reached by using a slope up to the door to staircase 3. The staircase door opens to 89 cm and has a threshold of 3 cm. The lift door opens to 81 cm. The lift is 830 cm wide and 142 cm deep. The call button is 114 cm from the floor. The lift buttons are 94 cm from the floor.
Cohen Quad
Both these lifts have doors which open to a minimum of 80 cm. They are 144 cm deep and 106 cm wide. They have backlit buttons with braille and audio information. The call buttons are 106 cm from the floor and the lift buttons are between 90 cm and 116 cm from the floor.

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The College has a range of building styles and staircases some more accessible than others. Some staircases have contrasting edges and handrails but this is not consistent across the site. The following rooms can be reached without having to use stairs:
Turl Street
•    JCR
•    MCR
•    Rector’s Lodgings
Cohen Quad
•    Ruskin Room
•    Kloppenburg Room
•    Maddicott Room
•    Eltis Room
•    Huntley Quelch Music Room

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As you would expect in a College with buildings built at different times there are a large variety of doors. There are powered doors in the following areas:
•    Staircase 11 door
•    Accessible Bedroom Staircase 11
•    Library inner door
•    Quads and Gardens 
Some of the doors are heavy and some people may need assistance. Some doors are opened using keys and some have door knobs.

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Front Quad
There is level access into Front Quad and paving around the edge of the grass. Front Quad has the Chapel and the Dining Hall, the MCR and JCR and accommodation. There is level access from Margary Quad.
Margary Quad
There is level access into Margary Quad from Front Quad and from the vehicle entrance. The surface is paved. Margary Quad has the Rector’s Lodgings and the gym and the laundry and one of the accessible bedrooms. There is also accommodation on this quad and the Saskatchewan and Quarrell rooms. 
North Quad
This Quad is used as a social space. It is on two levels with a set of stairs. The quad has level access either from the doors near the FitzHugh Auditorium or at the lower level from doors near the café. The doors are quite heavy to open. To move from one level to the other without using stairs it would be necessary to use the lift inside the building.
Benson Quad
There is sloped access to the top of this Quad. The lower level can only be reached by using stairs. 

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The Fellows Garden can only be accessed by using a step at each end of the corridor in Staircase five. Each step is 15 cm high. The Fellows Garden has the Library and is used as a social space. There is a gravel path around the edge of the garden and a metal edge around the grass. The garden has a raised terrace which can only be reached by using stairs. 

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The Library can only be reached by using two steps which are in the passageway next to staircase five. 
Ground Floor 
The outer door to the library opens above the recommended 80 cm. The inner door to the Library is automatic and opens to 80 cm.  The reception desk is 86 cm from the floor. The aisle between the bookshelves is 140 cm wide. The underside of the tables is 72 cm from the floor.
First Floor
The first floor of the library can also only be reached by using stairs. There is space to manoeuvre on this floor. The underside of the desk is 72 cm from the floor. The librarians provide a book collection service for people who cannot access the library or the first floor. The Library has desk raises and foot rests available for users to borrow. 

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The Cohen quad has five seminar rooms. Four of the rooms have level access. All of the rooms have manual doors. The underside of the tables is 72 cm from the floor. The chairs are 48 cm from the floor.
Kloppenburg Room
This room has double doors. Each door opens to 56 cm. There is room to manoeuvre a wheelchair in this room. 
Ruskin Room
This room has double doors. Each door opens to 64 cm. The doors to this room are light and will stay open. There is room to manoeuvre a wheelchair in this room. 
Maddicott Room
This room has double doors. Each door opens to 68 cm. There is room to manoeuvre a wheelchair in this room. 
Eltis Room
This room has a single door which opens to 87 cm. This is the smallest of the rooms. 

The following rooms can only be reached by using stairs: 
•    Quarrell Room
•    Marilyn Butler Room
Staff will arrange meetings in other rooms for anyone unable to manage stairs.

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FitzHugh Auditorium
This auditorium in the Cohen Quad has level access. The manual double doors each open to 66 cm. There is room to manoeuvre a wheelchair in this room. 
Saskatchewan Lecture Theatre
The lecture theatre on the Turl Street site can only be reached by using stairs. Staff will arrange meetings in other rooms for anyone unable to manage stairs.

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The main building double doors each open to 72 cm. Both doors will stay open. The route from the lift into the hall avoids this door. The double doors into the Dining Hall are both light. Each one opens to 60 cm. Both these doors will stay open. The underside of the tables is 73 cm. There is a crosspiece underneath which is 31 cm from the edge of the table. One of the tables has space without the crosspiece. There are two steps up to the dais which are 13 cm and 14 cm high.

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The access to the chapel is either by using steps or a steep portable ramp. The outer double doors open to 80 cm each and the inner doors open to 84 cm each. There is a set of metal gates inside the chapel giving access to the aisle. Each gate opens to 64 cm. The gates will stay open. There is a step up to the gates which is 12 cm high. The College have a portable ramp for this step. The aisle is 242 cm. There is level access to the lowest row of pews.

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The building door opens to 83 cm. The door to the JCR opens to 78 cm. It has a 3 cm step. This door has a holdback device. There is to manouevre a wheelchair in this space. There is seating of different heights available.
Kitchen
The door to the kitchen opens to 80 cm. This door has a 3 cm step. There is a recess underneath the hob which is 80 cm wide and 60 cm deep. The work surface here is 76 cm from the floor. There is also a recess underneath the sink which is 60 cm from the floor due to the sink. There is limited room to manoeuvre a wheelchair in this room.
Computer Room
The door has an effective clear width of 77 cm. There is a 2 cm step. There is limited room to manoeuvre a wheelchair in this room.

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