Halls of residence at University College London

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} This is a list of the '''halls of residence at University College London''' in London, England.

==Ramsay Hall== '''Ramsay Hall''' is a building located in London used primarily as a hall of residence for students of University College London.

===History=== The building was designed by Maxwell Fry. It opened for autumn term, 1964.<ref name=smiles>{{citation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lRzEO3D-7_IC |title=Going modern and being British: art, architecture and design in Devon c. 1910–1960|author=Sam Smiles| publisher=Intellect Books| location=London, UK | year=1998| isbn=1-871516-95-1 | access-date=15 March 2011}}</ref> It is situated on Maple Street in central London, on the border of Fitzrovia and Bloomsbury and around one hundred metres from Tottenham Court Road.<ref name=rh>{{cite web|url=http://www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-students/accommodation/residences/halls-of-residence/vtours/ramsay-hall|title=Ramsay Hall|access-date=15 March 2011|publisher=University College London|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101127021703/http://www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-students/accommodation/residences/halls-of-residence/vtours/ramsay-hall|archive-date=27 November 2010}}</ref> The building is located within the Bloomsbury Conservation Area.<ref name=rh/> It occupies the same block as, and forms a single unified building with, the YMCA Indian Student Hostel designed by Ralph Tubbs and was constructed at the same time.<ref name=smiles/> The building contains around 450 bedrooms, a dining hall and a number of common rooms and surrounds a central courtyard.<ref name=rh/> In 2008 the building received a major refurbishment and an 8-storey extension containing 91 rooms was added, at a total cost of £8 million.<ref name=levitt>{{cite web|url=http://www.levittbernstein.co.uk/public.getfile.cfm?type=pdf&fid=817|title=Student Housing – Levitt Bernstein|access-date=15 March 2011|publisher=Levitt Bernstein|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720044723/http://www.levittbernstein.co.uk/public.getfile.cfm?type=pdf&fid=817|archive-date=20 July 2011}}</ref> The architects for the project were Levitt Bernstein and it won a Camden Building Excellence Award in 2009.<ref name=levitt/><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.sitelines.co.uk/articleview.php?id=1345|title=Camden focus on quality construction|access-date=15 March 2011|publisher=Site Lines|date=Winter 2009|issue=51|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120321093459/http://www.sitelines.co.uk/articleview.php?id=1345|archive-date=21 March 2012}}</ref> The new extension was subsequently awarded a BREEAM 'very good' rating.<ref name=levitt/> In 2010 a further 10 bedrooms were added to the building.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.universityliving.com/blog/admission-guide/everything-you-need-to-know-about-university-college-london/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230927174927/https://www.universityliving.com/blog/admission-guide/everything-you-need-to-know-about-university-college-london/|url-status=dead|archive-date=27 September 2023|title=Everything about University College London}}</ref> In 2018 further renovation work occurred, focusing particularly on upgrading the common lounge.

In 2019, it was filmed for Edgar Wright's psychological horror film ''Last Night in Soho'' as Eloise's (Thomasin McKenzie) former residential hall for the London College of Fashion, where she shared a room with her snobby roommate Jocasta.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.cntraveller.com/article/last-night-in-soho-filming-locations | title='Last Night in Soho' filming locations: Where was the movie filmed? | date=22 October 2021 }}</ref>

===Residents=== Notable former residents include all four members of the British band Coldplay, who met whilst living at the hall.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2004/sep/13/highereducation.popandrock|title=Hours of Idleness|access-date=15 March 2011|newspaper=The Guardian|date=13 September 2004|quote=Coldplay came together in Ramsay Hall, a dour student barracks, lodged primly among Fitzrovia's numerous knocking shops, with canteen food of legendary awfulness. }}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine| url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=205215&sectioncode=26|title=You might not believe it, but that gown is so rock'n'roll|access-date=15 March 2011|magazine=Times Higher Education|date=8 September 2006}}</ref>

Filmmaker and director Christopher Nolan was a resident. He read English Language and Literature at UCL and was a member of the film society there.

===Hostel=== Outside UCL term time the building serves as a hostel.<ref>{{citation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mbABXTNOsyAC&q=%22ramsay+hall%22+university+of+london |title=The Encyclopedia of Cheap Travel: 1,000 Companies, Consolidators, Agencies, and Resources|author=Terrance Zepke| publisher=Six Star Publishing| location=London, UK | year=2002| isbn=0-7414-0841-4 | access-date=15 March 2011}}</ref><ref>{{citation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XAgJVQzFQFAC&q=Cheap+sleeps+in+London:+the+savvy+traveler's+guide+to+the+best+accommodations+at+the+best+prices |title=Cheap sleeps in London: the savvy traveler's guide to the best accommodations at the best prices|author=Sandra Gustafson| publisher=Chronicle Books| location=London, UK | year=1994| isbn=0-8118-2781-X | access-date=15 March 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/53253529.html?dids=53253529:53253529&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Apr+30%2C+2000&author=ARTHUR+FROMMER&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=ON+A+BUDGET%3B+How+to+Hold+Onto+Pounds+in+London&pqatl=google|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629083715/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/53253529.html?dids=53253529:53253529&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Apr+30,+2000&author=ARTHUR+FROMMER&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=ON+A+BUDGET%3B+How+to+Hold+Onto+Pounds+in+London&pqatl=google|url-status=dead|archive-date=29 June 2011|title=On a Budget; How to Hold Onto Pounds in London|access-date=15 March 2011|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|quote=... such as the modern Ramsay Hall at 20 Maple St. ... This modern, 462-room complex is positioned ideally for the West End theater district, Oxford and Regent streets and the British Museum. There are no baths in the rooms, but the price is right: $36 to $39 per person, with breakfast|date=30 April 2000}}</ref> There are numerous images of the building within the Courtauld Institute of Art's Conway Collection.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.artandarchitecture.org.uk/search/results.html?object_id=%2288a77ac39f1e3eeac47eb4759731b9a95a7c8659%22&display=University+of+London%2c+Ramsay+Hall+and+Indian+Y.M.C.A.++|title=University of London, Ramsay Hall and Indian Y.M.C.A.|access-date=15 March 2011|publisher=The Courtauld Institute of Art|archive-date=19 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121019235626/http://www.artandarchitecture.org.uk/search/results.html?object_id=%2288a77ac39f1e3eeac47eb4759731b9a95a7c8659%22&display=University+of+London,+Ramsay+Hall+and+Indian+Y.M.C.A.++|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==James Lighthill House== '''James Lighthill House''' is located on Penton Rise near the Pentonville Road intersection. It contains 209<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.ucl.ac.uk/residences/information/groups/james-lighthill-house | title=James Lighthill House | access-date=March 21, 2011 | publisher=University College London, UK | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110705193126/http://www.ucl.ac.uk/residences/information/groups/james-lighthill-house | archive-date=July 5, 2011 }}</ref> single en suite rooms across a large main block and a smaller 'lodge' in the courtyard. All flats are self-catered<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.londonuniversityrooms.co.uk/halls/details.aspx?id=jameslighthill | title=James Lighthill House, Finsbury, London | access-date=March 21, 2011 | publisher= London University Rooms, UK}}</ref> and share a communal kitchen cleaned once a week by staff. There is a laundrette on site and a large common room with an air-hockey table. The closest London Underground stations to the halls are King's Cross St Pancras and Angel.

=== History === James Lighthill House and Paul Robeson House, another hall of residence for the School of Oriental and African Studies, are both on the site of a former steel-stockbroking depot, owned and operated by Macready's Metal Co. Ltd.<ref>{{cite book | title=Northern Clerkenwell and Pentonville: Survey of London, Volume 47 | author=English Heritage | author-link=English Heritage | year=2008 | publisher=Yale University Press | page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=OLgzAQAAIAAJ&q=Paul+Robeson+House 368] | editor=Temple, Philip | isbn=978-0-300-13937-2}}</ref> The original warehouse, built in 1935, was designed by M. Stanley Blanchfield of Raynes Park.

The current building was designed by the British architectural design firm Levitt Bernstein on the site of an existing hall of residence.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=1165 | title=UCL, London, United Kingdom: Digs with a difference | access-date=March 21, 2011 | date=26 June 2007 | publisher=World Architecture News}}</ref> It has a wave-shaped façade to allow light inside more easily, while maintaining privacy.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.building.co.uk/news/levitt-bernstein%E2%80%99s-student-housing-makes-waves-in-islington-images/3089211.article | title=Levitt Bernstein's student housing makes waves in Islington | access-date=March 21, 2011 | author=Smith, Alex | date=13 June 2007 | publisher= Building.co.uk}}</ref> The building was opened in 2007.

Sir Michael James Lighthill, FRS (1924–1998) was an applied mathematician who is known for his pioneering work in the field of aeroacoustics. He was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University, a chair he held until 1979, when he was succeeded by Stephen Hawking. Lighthill then became Provost of University College London, a post he held until 1989. James Lighthill House is named in his honour.

==Nutford House== '''Nutford House''' in Marble Arch was built in 1916 and was acquired by the University of London in 1949, after which it was expanded to take in five terraced houses in Brown Street, known as the Annexe and one house in Seymour Place. Accommodation is provided for 199 men and women students in 157 single and 21 twin rooms. No smoking is permitted in the hall.

Nutford House has a total of 156 single rooms, and 21 shared rooms across the main hall, annexe and Seymour Place. The warden for many years was the sole surviving relative of Howard Carter, the discoverer of Tutankhamun's tomb. He signed the death certificate (last seen on display at the 1992 British Museum's exhibit of Carter's career before Tutankhamun).

The hall has a TV room, a common room, a games room, a music room, a study room, a bicycle shed and a small private garden usually open from 9{{nbsp}}a.m. till 10:30&nbsp;p.m. The Hall also has a two laundry rooms (one in the Main House, one in the Annexe) and a number of small tea kitchens.

==Others== * Arthur Tattersall House (115–131 Gower Street)<ref>{{cite web |title=Arthur Tattersall House |url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/accommodation/halls/arthur-tattersall-house |website=UCL Accommodation |date=November 2018 |publisher=University College London |access-date=20 March 2024}}</ref> * Astor College (99 Charlotte Street)<ref>{{cite web |title=Astor College |url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/accommodation/halls/astor-college |website=UCL Accommodation |date=November 2018 |publisher=University College London |access-date=20 March 2024}}</ref> * Campbell House East and West (Taviton Street)<ref>{{cite web |title=Campbell House East |url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/accommodation/halls/campbell-house-east |website=UCL Accommodation |date=November 2018 |publisher=University College London |access-date=21 March 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Campbell House West |url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/accommodation/halls/campbell-house-west |website=UCL Accommodation |date=November 2018 |publisher=University College London |access-date=21 March 2024}}</ref> * Goldsmid House (36 Gillingham Street)<ref>{{cite web |title=Goldsmid House |url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/accommodation/halls/goldsmid-house |website=UCL Accommodation |date=November 2018 |publisher=University College London |access-date=21 March 2024}}</ref> * Ifor Evans & Max Rayne Student Residences (109 Camden Road)<ref>{{cite web |title=Ifor Evans Hall |url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/accommodation/halls/ifor-evans-hall |website=UCL Accommodation |date=November 2018 |publisher=University College London |access-date=21 March 2024}}</ref> * Frances Gardner House and Langton Close (Gray's Inn Road)<ref>{{cite web |title=Frances Gardner House |url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/accommodation/halls/frances-gardner-house |website=UCL Accommodation |date=November 2018 |publisher=University College London |access-date=21 March 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Langton Close |url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/accommodation/halls/langton-close |website=UCL Accommodation |date=November 2018 |publisher=University College London |access-date=21 March 2024}}</ref> * John Adams Hall (15–23 Endsleigh Street)<ref>{{cite web |title=John Adams Hall |url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/accommodation/halls/john-adams-hall |website=UCL Accommodation |date=November 2018 |publisher=University College London |access-date=21 March 2024}}</ref> * John Tovell House (89 & 93–7 Gower Street)<ref>{{cite web |title=John Tovell House |url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/accommodation/halls/john-tovell-house |website=UCL Accommodation |date=November 2018 |publisher=University College London |access-date=21 March 2024}}</ref> * John Dodgson House (Bidborough Street)<ref>{{cite web |title=John Dodgson House |url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/accommodation/halls/john-dodgson-house |website=UCL Accommodation |date=November 2018 |publisher=University College London |access-date=21 March 2024}}</ref> * Max Rayne House, 109 Camden Road, London, NW1 9HZ<ref>{{cite web | title=John Dodgson House | date=November 2018 | url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/accommodation/halls/john-dodgson-house }}</ref> * New Hall (465 Caledonian Road)<ref>{{cite web |title=New Hall |url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/accommodation/halls/new-hall |website=UCL Accommodation |date=November 2018 |publisher=University College London |access-date=21 March 2024}}</ref> * One Pool Street (1 Pool Street)<ref>{{cite web |title=One Pool Street |url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/accommodation/halls/one-pool-street |website=UCL Accommodation |date=28 March 2022 |publisher=University College London |access-date=21 March 2024}}</ref> * Prankerd House (195 North Gower Street)<ref>{{cite web |title=Prankerd House |url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/accommodation/halls/prankerd-house |website=UCL Accommodation |date=November 2018 |publisher=University College London |access-date=21 March 2024}}</ref> * Ramsay Hall and Ian Baker House Student Residences (Maple Street)<ref>{{cite web |title=Ramsay Hall |url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/accommodation/halls/ramsay-hall |website=UCL Accommodation |date=November 2018 |publisher=University College London |access-date=21 March 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Ian Baker House |url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/accommodation/halls/ian-baker-house |website=UCL Accommodation |date=November 2018 |publisher=University College London |access-date=21 March 2024}}</ref> * Schafer House Student Residence (Drummond Street)<ref>{{cite web |title=Schafer House |url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/accommodation/halls/schafer-house |website=UCL Accommodation |date=November 2018 |publisher=University College London |access-date=21 March 2024}}</ref> * St Pancras Way (11–13 St Pancras Way)<ref>{{cite web |title=St Pancras Way |url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/accommodation/halls/st-pancras-way |website=UCL Accommodation |date=November 2018 |publisher=University College London |access-date=21 March 2024}}</ref> *Canterbury Hall, Commonwealth Hall, College Hall, Connaught Hall, Hughes Parry Hall and International Hall near Russell Square in Bloomsbury *Lillian Penson Hall in Paddington<ref>{{cite web |title=Lillian Penson Hall |url=https://www.london.ac.uk/sites/default/files/uploads/Stay-Central-Lillian-Penson-Hall-booklet.pdf |website=University of London |access-date=21 March 2024}}</ref>

There is limited UCL accommodation available for married students and those with children at Bernard Johnson House, Hawkridge, Neil Sharp House and the University of London's Lilian Penson Hall.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-students/accommodation/ |title=Accommodation |publisher=University College London |access-date=26 April 2010 |archive-date=4 May 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100504143814/http://www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-students/accommodation |url-status=dead }}</ref>

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