Other facilities in the main house include a bar, library, common room and dark room. The house also contains an ornate mahogany parlour complete with original wooden panelling dating back to 1725, which is reserved for meetings and special events. When the hall was gifted to the University of Bristol in 1953, the house was converted (completed in 1956) to accommodate 19 female students and was a catered hall. This was reverted with the development of the new blocks. Student accommodation The student accommodation blocks, built on a paddock within the gardens, were completed in their original form in 1969. This original development consisted of nine stand alone blocks in a quadrangle arrangement. A major, award-winning refurbishment was completed in 1994, after a benefaction from Lord and Lady Sainsbury through the Linbury Trust]. The design was that of Bristol architects Alec French. Improvements to the site included: Building additional study bedrooms, kitchens and fire escape stairwells onto the original blocks. Construction of Linbury Court, consisting of 24 en-suite rooms and student study facilities. Creation of a small on-site car park. The hall now comprises 11 blocks, 2 of which have en-suite facilities. The hall can accommodate 267 students, in addition to three flats for staff located within the main house. Gardens and grounds The historic English Landscape Garden style grounds, designed by Thomas Goldney III, include an orangery, gothic tower and grotto. The Goldney Hall gardens encompass a site and are known for their notable five follies: Ornamental Canal Gothic Tower Rotunda Mock Bastion Shell-lined Grotto A sixth folly, the Octagon, consisted of a two-story summer house located where L block stands today. While the exact date of the removal of the Octagon is not known, it is missing from plans which date to 1864. The garden also features a canal. The hall has an orangery, which is attached to the main house and faces out onto the canal. The original glass roof was replaced with tile at some point in the early 1900s. The gothic tower, to the south of the main house, was built in 1764 to house a Newcomen steam engine. The opening through which the beam of the steam engine would have passed can still be seen today on the north face of the tower. The steam engine, constructed using a boiler supplied by the Coalbrookdale works, is supposed to have been the first used for