Salisbury Green is an eighteenth-century house, on the Pollock Halls of Residence site of the

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. Originally built around 1780 by Alexander Scott, it is one of the two original buildings on site, along with

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. From 1820, the house was extended repeatedly. In 1860-67 the architect John Lessels remodelled in house in baronial style, for the publisher William Nelson (1816–1887), of the Thomas Nelson publishing company. The university acquired the building after

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and it was extended again in 1979. Several of its public rooms have been restored including the bow-fronted drawing room to the east, the Red Room with ebony fittings and the oak-panelled billiard room. Its interior includes rich painting by Charles Frechou. In 2006, Salisbury Green was given a thorough refurbishment, and operated by the university as the Salisbury Green Hotel. It was rebranded as the Masson House Hotel and Bistro in 2018, and as of 2025 is trading as The Scholar Hotel. It no longer houses students. The building (including its boundary walls) has been

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since December 1970.

References

External links

Salisbury Green website (archive from Dec 2017)The Scholar Hotel website
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