Exeter College
Exeter College in Turl Street was extended northward to Broad Street in the nineteenth century.
The eastern end of these new buildings (designed by H. J. Underwood) run from what is now the the Museum of the History of Science to the present central gateway. They were built in 1832, and Jackson's Oxford Journal of 5 January 1833 reported:
The new building of Exeter College, facing the Broad-street, in this University, is now finished, and it must be allowed by every one who looks upon it to be a great improvement in the general appearance of that spacious street. The design and execution of the work are creditable to the taste and skill of the architect and builder. The conteur of the whole is in admirable agreement with the peculiar style which prevails in our antient college structures, without any of the superfluous finery which some modern imitators of gothic architecture are fond of superadding. If, as would seem to be the intention, another wing is hereafter erected, with an appropriate gateway in the centre, we shall not have a more elegant and chaste college front, nor one which will add more to the imposing beauties of Oxford. The only suggestion we would ask the architect's permission to give is, that he would select some other and more suitable termination for his gable ends, than the crosses he has put up. On churches and chapels they are properly placed; but surely, out of the hundred examples of antient fineals which are to be met with, he might have copied one equally ornamental, and not liable to the same just objection.
It was a quarter of a century before the western end (designed by George Gilbert Scott) was built in 1856–9. This comprises the towered gateway and the range running westwards to the shop at 27 Broad Street .
This whole range is jointly Grade II listed (List Entry No. 1369640), and is in St Michael-at-the-Northgate parish.
The photograph below (Historic England CC72/00686) shows Exeter College's Broad Street buildings in 1880:
This painting of 1793 shows the quaint old buildings that formerly stood on this site.