The Drag Suite
The Drag Suite as viewed from its entrance
Peckwater 2:4, known as “The Drag Suite” for no adequately-explored reason, is the largest twin set in Christ Church.
Statto lives here this academic year with Charles Markland.
Composition
The Drag Suite comprises a large, shared area, panelled with fire-regulations-tastic oak, off which can be found two bedrooms, one of which is slightly larger than the other, and the other of which has a study between it and the main room, unlike the one. From the main room, there are four doors, one to each bedroom, one to the outside world, and one to a rather disappointing two-foot-deep cupboard which contains shelves.
It also contains wonky and outdated pieces of oaken furtniture, including a Welsh dresser and some kind of sideyboard-cupboard-type-thing which doesn’t fit into any conventional furniture classification. Its light fitting is somewhat disappointing, sadly lacking the more traditional Peck chandelier and instead having a giant tissue-paper-reinforced-with-wire globe around a bare bulb so typical of cheaply-kitted-out Oxford rooms. This, combined with its position in the Quad not being especially conducive to large amounts of sunshine, means that the room is dark and more often than not, cold, for most of the day and night.
Even from the outside the room manages to be impressive, taking up some five first-floor windows in difference to every other set in Peck which each only muster two.
Other information
- It provided the setting for a bizarre stop-motion animation with a two-thirds live human cast, A Mysterious Meeting.