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It’s one of the most expensive halls on campus, but it really is brilliant. I dreaded the fact that I might have to share with 11 others, but it turned out brilliantly. The opportunities to socialise and just chat every day while still sometimes having the kitchen/dining room/living room area really worked for me as an introvert. The worst part of it was just that flatmates rarely cleaned up after themselves, but the building and facilities themselves are spectacular. The shared living space is huge compared to all the other halls, with 3 sofas and lots of storage space. Kitchen came equipped with a toaster and kettle (which got replaced a few times due to faults but always very quickly), 2 ovens, a microwave, a cupboard and a half each, and a shelf each in the fridges and freezers. The kitchen is lovely for cooking together or alone, but when it’s dinner time it can get very crowded, so best to stagger eating times so not everyone is cooking at once. Warning: there is no lift.
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It’s one of the most expensive halls on campus, but it really is brilliant. I dreaded the fact that I might have to share with 11 others, but it turned out brilliantly. The opportunities to socialise and just chat every day while still sometimes having the kitchen/dining room/living room area really worked for me as an introvert. The worst part of it was just that flatmates rarely cleaned up after themselves, but the building and facilities themselves are spectacular. The shared living space is huge compared to all the other halls, with 3 sofas and lots of storage space. Kitchen came equipped with a toaster and kettle (which got replaced a few times due to faults but always very quickly), 2 ovens, a microwave, a cupboard and a half each, and a shelf each in the fridges and freezers. The kitchen is lovely for cooking together or alone, but when it’s dinner time it can get very crowded, so best to stagger eating times so not everyone is cooking at once. Warning: there is no lift.
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Stenton Townhouses Information
| Telephone | +44 (0)118 200 5011 |
| Postcode | RG1 6JN |
| Top tip | Stenton Townhouses offer elegant self-catered rooms in the heart of Whiteknights campus, opposite Park Eat and close to university facilities. Visit the website to find out more. |
Room Types
Single Rooms Townhouse with Shared Bathroom - Self-catered
Amenities
This property offers shared kitchen/dining areas, Wi-Fi, close to Park Group social hub, large laundry, bike shed, post boxes, utility bills & basic contents insurance included. Discover more!
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- Common Room
- Communal Kitchen
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- No Smoking
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Stenton Townhouses is a stone's throw away from Whiteknights Lake, green spaces, Park Group social hub & local attractions.
University of Reading
Whiteknights Campus8 mins3 mins8 mins0.3 mi
Stenton Townhouses Biography
Stenton Townhouses is a well-equipped accommodation and is situated only 0.6 km away from the central Whiteknights campus. Residents can also benefit from being close to Park Group social hub and all local amenities.
Students can make use of the fully equipped shared kitchen spaces and hang around and get to know their neighbours in the dining areas. There are handy facilities and amenities that include a large laundry room, bike shed, post boxes and high-speed Wi-Fi. Sleep soundly at night knowing utility bills and basic content insurance are included.
Stenton Townhouses offers elegant self-catered rooms with shared bathrooms, arranged in twelve-bedroom apartments across three floors. All you need to do is add your own finishing touches to make it your home away from home. Each room features a bed, study space, and ample storage.
Visit the website to find out more.
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do the people who live here tend to be first years or returners?
By member653942 On 5th February 21
A bit of both. Townhouses are mainly returners
By member12115131 On 18th September 24
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Is it easy to socialise and see different people outside of the people you live with? Also is it a mixed townhouse and shared bathroom or do you live with same gender? Thanks
By member947008 On 28th March 20
There's two bathrooms and four bedrooms per floor so you share with one other person. Typically the town house is mixed gender but usually the rooms are laid out so you share with the same gender. Its super easy to socialise - there are loads of townhouses grouped together in rows so easy to make friends with other halls/townhouses.
By member967028 On 9th March 22
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How large is the bed in the room? Thanks
By member840086 On 3rd July 19
they're a small double, the type of double found in all student accommodation.
By member1045199 On 4th February 20
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Great location on campus. Large kitchen and communal area so plenty of space.
Hi, Thank you for taking the time to share your review. We're glad you had a great experience living at Reading! Kind Regards, The Reading Accommodation Team
Stenton townhouses are great for anybody who enjoys socialising on the downstairs kitchen and lounge area, while also providing privacy in your own rooms.
Hi, Thank you so much for your review. We're glad you had a great experience living at Reading! Kind Regards, The Reading Accommodation Team
I think that the living room in the townhouses are really good - there is a space to watch tv and films so more people can watch together
Hi, Thank you so much for your review. We're glad you had a great experience living at Reading! Kind Regards, The Reading Accommodation Team
Stenton townhouses are very good for socialising. The quality and space in the rooms is great. I would definitely recommend to a friend.
Hi, Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. We're delighted you had such a positive experience living at Reading. Kind Regards, The Reading Accommodation Team
The downstairs shared space was lovely and big enough to accommodate everyone and their friends. Only issue was noise outside late at night as they are right opposite stenton halls. Cleaning was good and 24 hour maintenance was helpful if we forgot key cards or doors weren’t opening etc. Campus was only a 5 minute walk and facilities (washing machines, bars, 3sixty) were no longer than 3-5 minutes away.
Hi, Thank you for your feedback and review! We're thrilled to hear that you enjoyed the spacious downstairs communal area and found it accommodating for everyone and their friends. We also appreciate that you appreciated our cleaning and maintenance services. We're sorry to hear about the noise disruptions coming from outside. We do encourage students to report all issues via the dedicated Home at Halls app or the 24/7 Halls Hotline so that our team can rectify any issues as soon as possible. If you would like to discuss further or share more detailed feedback, please do reach out on accommodationonline@reading.ac.uk or 0118 200 5011. Kind Regards, The Reading Accommodation Team
Rooms are not heated well, the heating of my building (including hot water in the shower) had many problems and they could not fix it properly and I was told off on the phone to go and buy my own additional heater. Considering how much I already paid for a room, this sounded wrong. Some items in the kitchen such as kettles are not cleaned at all, and drains in the bathrooms are easily blocked even after cleaning. I asked for a room that takes good sunshine because, in the winter months, it affects my mental health a lot but I am given a room with a window that is blocked by another building. Only one vacuum cleaner is given for all 3 floors to share which is hard to carry upstairs with no lift. The doors of the rooms sometimes lock themselves due to battery issues and I had to report this so many times. The chairs provided in the rooms never work properly, impossible to adjust their height. I am given a room with a broken drawer. All these issues could be fixed before my arrival.
Hi, Thank you for taking the time to leave your feedback. We are sorry to hear that your experience fell below your expectations. All rooms are heated to maintain an average of 20 degrees centigrade and a minimum of 18 degrees during the heating season (normally October – end of April). This means that if the room temperature drops below 18 degrees the heating will automatically turn back on. If students have concerns about the temperature in their hall, we encourage them to contact the 24/7 Halls Hotline. We also encourage residents to report all issues via the dedicated Home at Halls app so that our team can rectify as soon as possible. If you would like to discuss this further or provide more detailed feedback, please contact accommodationonline@reading.ac.uk or phone 0118 200 5011. Kind regards, The Reading Accommodation Team
It’s one of the most expensive halls on campus, but it really is brilliant. I dreaded the fact that I might have to share with 11 others, but it turned out brilliantly. The opportunities to socialise and just chat every day while still sometimes having the kitchen/dining room/living room area really worked for me as an introvert. The worst part of it was just that flatmates rarely cleaned up after themselves, but the building and facilities themselves are spectacular. The shared living space is huge compared to all the other halls, with 3 sofas and lots of storage space. Kitchen came equipped with a toaster and kettle (which got replaced a few times due to faults but always very quickly), 2 ovens, a microwave, a cupboard and a half each, and a shelf each in the fridges and freezers. The kitchen is lovely for cooking together or alone, but when it’s dinner time it can get very crowded, so best to stagger eating times so not everyone is cooking at once. Warning: there is no lift.
Hi, Thanks so much for your review. We’re glad you had a great experience living at Reading! Kind Regards, The Reading Accommodation Team
Good location, nice layout to the townhouse with the ‘lounge’ area separate to the kitchen.
Hi, Thanks so much for your review. We’re glad you had a great experience living at Reading! Kind Regards, The Reading Accommodation Team
Good year. Nice house. Plenty of fridge and freezer space. Big kitchen with two ovens and sofa area to hang out. I only shared bathroom with one other which wasnt bad. Room got a bit cold in winter and very hot in summer. Summer was fine once I bought a fan. A maintenance came and fixed our radiotors in winter which helped a bit with cold. Social areas stayed a hood temp throughout
Hi, Thank you for your feedback, we really appreciate it here at Reading! We’re really pleased you enjoyed your time living here. Kind Regards, The Reading Accommodation Team
I enjoyed my experience overall, the location is amazing and the amount of facilities and storage spaces are great. The only major problem was that a few of my housemates were extremely problematic, often doing illegal substances and being very loud at 3am, and HAH support wasn’t great.
Hi, Thank you for your feedback and review! We're glad to hear that you enjoyed your overall experience and appreciated the location, facilities and storage space. We're sorry to hear about the issues you faced with some housemates and the lack of sufficient support from home at halls support team. We do encourage residents to report all issues via the dedicated Home at Halls app or the 24/7 Halls Hotline so that our team can rectify any issues as soon as possible. We will pass this feedback on to our team to look into further. Additionally, this can be reported at your halls receptions and to the hall wardens on site who would have addressed this issue. If you would like to discuss further or share more detailed feedback, please do reach out on accommodationonline@reading.ac.uk or 0118 200 5011. Kind Regards, The Reading Accommodation Team
Stenton Townhouses are brilliant for socialising compared to many other accommodations I visited on campus. Sharing a bathroom with one other person is no hassle at all and the price compared to other accommodations was much more reasonable. While staff came to help most of the time, there were a few times we had issues that took a while to be sorted but overall would 100% recommend.
Hi, Thank you for your feedback, we really appreciate it here at Reading! We’re really pleased you enjoyed your time living here. Kind Regards, The Reading Accommodation Team
was pretty good but showers were faulty - black mold, fans not working, too bright of a light which were never fixed. not worth the expensive rent
Hi, Thank you for your review, we are sorry to hear that your experience fell below your expectations. Regarding any maintenance issues students encounter in halls, we encourage residents to report all issues via the dedicated Home at Halls app so that our team can rectify as soon as possible. If you would like to discuss this further or provide more detailed feedback, please contact accommodationonline@reading.ac.uk or phone 0118 200 5011. Kind regards, The Reading Accommodation Team
Stenton townhouse offers a great accommodation for new or mature students offering great room spaces, with double beds and sharing a bathroom with one other person. It also provides huge kitchen spaces with ample provision of ovens, hobs and work surfaces. They also provide a big communal area with a lounge and sofas.
Near the lake, pretty and quiet. The room is big and has some storage space under the bed.
Stenton halls are great! I’m a 1st year and wasn’t expecting to live here! But the location is great it’s a 2 minute walk to park bar and a seven minute walk to main campus where most lectures are and the libary is!!! The main benefit is the social space with a lounge kitchen and dinning table all open plan!! Really good for making friends as you live with 11 other people. The only downside is that you have to share a bathroom with one other person, share with the same gender. I was most worried about this but it’s been fine, one other person is not that bad and it gets cleaned every week. It’s quite expensive hall, but worth it if you want to be really sociable.
Thoroughly enjoyed living here in my 1st year
Stenton Townhouses are great! I live in the Lambourn houses and the location was very good, near the lake so quiet enough and relaxing to see the sunrise. Also, you only share the bathroom with one person, which is not a problem at all. Pros:-double bed and spacious rooms -communal living room and kitchen are massive, great for pres! -two doors to get inside - the main entrance and back door, which is useful when wanting a shortcut to lectures. -there is a cleaner who cleans weekly, and the bins get changed daily (except for weekends) Love you Bimala <3 Cons:-can be noisy on student nights when people are leaving to go to the club or arriving back, but this usually lasts a few minutes only and the noise can be muffled if the window is shut. -being on the third floor can be a heavy walk, especially when carrying lots of baggage; however, it does tone your legs so the effort is worth it, and I got used to it after a few days. Love, an L7 baby x
Stenton Townhouses are lit. Social space is huge, everyone's jealous of our living rooms (@ Windsor), Social life is good here, everyone's always out and about. Being in the townhouses is good because it feels much more communal. Shared bathrooms isn't that deep when you only share with one person. 2 minute walk to Park Bar, washing and the SU. The lake is right behind the townhouses too so you can always go there on nightly strolls. 10/10.
Very sad to be moving out at the end of the year :(
Absolutely brilliant value for money. Very spacious communal areas and the toilets are cleaned because they're shared (with only one other person!). Only downfall is the stairs (fine if you live on the bottom floor) and that they're a little quieter than Stenton's blocks (excellent if you like your sleep though).
Lovely rooms, but so expensive and really hot very social. So hard to meet people outside your townhouse. Plus as the rooms arn't all on the same floor to tend to be separated so people don't hang out as much.
Really Good! Double bed, shared bathroom with one other, which is good! Big kitchen and good rooms.
Amazing social spaces to socialise!
Great if you get a good bunch of people to live with. If you don't get on with your housemates it's probably harder to make friends in other townhouses than it would be in flats. Very good facilities - shared bathrooms between two, double beds, large desk and big dining table fitting 12 people plus. Also sofas to provide a living room area. New in 2012 so still relatively new and clean.
The university wifi in halls can be a bit slow when attempting to watch films, but this isn't a huge problem. For freshers, townhouses were the least sociable of the options, but due to the number of people in a house this isn't a problem, plus if you put yourself out there, this is easy to overcome. More positively, they have brilliant rooms and the living area is spacious and comfortable. Currently, halls have been the most positive experience of housing in Reading.
Would highly recommend the townhouses to anyone! only negative is the JCR neglected us during freshers as most of the people in townhouses are 2/3 years
We pay less than the premium rooms in Stenton, Mackinder and Childs... Yet we have a bigger social area with sofas, bigger rooms and despite having to share bathrooms with one other person, they're cleaned for us unlike an en-suite. Sweet accommodation
great for social space, bad in terms management, get fined over a dropped tissue.