The college's oldest student accommodation, Beit Hall
Imperial College London's main student accommodation comprises six first-year undergraduate halls of residence around West London, primarily South Kensington and North Acton.[1][2] Accommodation in these halls is generally for first-year undergraduates only,[2] although some students may return as "hall seniors" with operational responsibilities[3] and there are three halls available for continuing students.[4] Halls are run by wardens (and, in some halls, assistant wardens) who are members of staff, along with sub-wardens who are PhD students. Silwood Park halls are postgraduate, but only cater for students studying on the Silwood Park postgraduate site in Berkshire.[5]
The college has enacted a policy in recent years of moving accommodation provision from central London to North Acton.[6][7][8] All halls are self-catered.[9]
Eastside and Southside halls surround Prince's Garden
South Kensington
Imperial's primary and traditional halls, with room for around 1,200 students, are located on its South Kensington campus.
Beit Hall
Located right next to Imperial College Union, Beit Hall opened as Beit Hostel in 1926 as the university's first hall of residence. The building is named after Sir Otto Beit, who funded around two-thirds of the construction cost.[10] The hall has 339 bed spaces at an average rent of £241/week.[11]
Southside
Opened in September 2007,[12] the four Southside halls have a total of 405 bed spaces.[13] They include: Falmouth Hall, named after the 8th Viscount Falmouth; Selkirk Hall, named after William Selkirk; Tizard Hall, named after Henry Tizard; and Keogh Hall, named after Alfred Keogh.[14]
The Kemp Porter Buildings are the college's newest halls
The North Acton halls, with room for around 1,400 students, are located away from Imperial's main South Kensington campus. The first buildings to open on the site was the Woodward Buildings, which opened in 2015 and have a rooftop garden.[17] This was followed by the 31-storey Kemp Porter Buildings, which topped out in 2019.[18] There have been local complaints about the appearance of the Woodward Buildings, as well as student complaints about the relocation of accommodation space to Acton.[8][19] Kemp Porter has 708 bed spaces in around 600 rooms,[20] while Woodward holds 689 students.[21]
Xenia, near Southbank and Waterloo Station, 166 bed spaces[28]
Silwood Park
The postgraduate-only accommodation at Silwood Park consists of five halls with room for a total of 86 students:[5]
Silwood Park
Brian Flowers
John Smith
Southwood
William Penney
Mary Flowers
Former halls of residence
Original Southside and Weeks Halls
The first halls next to Prince's Gardens—Falmouth, Keogh, Selkirk, and Tizard—opened in 1963, and formed Southside Halls. Linstead Hall and the first sport centre followed in 1968. The original Southside and Weeks Halls were Grade II listed in 1993.[29][30] In 2005 the Prince's Gardens halls were demolished, with the sports centre reopening as Ethos gym in 2006.[31][32] Weeks hall is no longer used as a hall of residence, but remains as a college building.[6]
↑ "Accommodation". imperial.ac.uk. Imperial College London. Retrieved 28 December 2020.
↑ Salisbury, Dave (9 December 1974). "25 years of Residence"(PDF). Felix (newspaper). No.371. p.11. Retrieved 1 May 2025. The building was to cost £16,000 which came from Union events, RCSA, RSMA Old Centralians, UGC and Sir Otto Beit who gave £10,000.
↑ "Beil Hall". Imperial. Retrieved 19 September 2024.
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