Aberystwyth University - Student Residences

Student Residences

The various student residences owned, leased or managed by the university offer over 3,500 bed-spaces in total. All have wired access to the University's computer network and a support network of residential tutors.

Penglais Campus:

• Cwrt Mawr (self-catered flats, capacity 485)
• Pantycelyn (traditional catered predominantly Welsh speaking hall, capacity 260)
• Penbryn (traditional catered hall, capacity 525)
  • Rendel (Blocks 1 & 3) (2 is now emergency accommodation and office space)
  • Davies Bryan (Block 4)
  • Alban Davies (Block 5) (Now remodelled into academic space for the Psychology Department)
  • Ifor Evans (Block 7)
  • Thomas Charles Edwards (Blocks 8 & 9) (Now remodelled as Cwrt Mawr Blocks M & N)
• Rosser (self-catered en-suite flats, capacity 332), expanded in 2011 to include postgraduate flats (capacity 60)
• Trefloyne (self-catered flats, capacity 146)

Llanbadarn Campus:

• Aeron, Cletwr, Dyfi, Einion and Leri – 5 residences that housed a total of 298 catered students (closed in June 2007 and since demolished)

Pentre Jane Morgan (the Student Village):

• 178 self-contained houses typically accommodate 5 or 6 students each, with greater capacity in rooms that have bunkbeds, allowing for 9 students each in some cases.
• A second student village is planned, to be built by 2014, to provide more ensuite accommodation following the closure of Llanbadarn in 2007 and Pantycelyn in 2013. Sited opposite the existing student village, it will accommodate an estimated 900 students. With the closures of Llanbadarn and Pantycelyn, the expansion will provide a total of 500 additional rooms.

Town:

• Brynderw (self-catered flats, capacity 146)
• Seafront Residences (self-catered flats located on the seafront and Queen's Road, overall capacity 720–800 including the redeveloped Alexandra Hall and Clarendon House Postgraduate residence). The original Seafront residences (Plyn' and Caerleon) were destroyed by fire in 1998. Seafront residences include Alexandra, Aberglasney, Balmoral,Blaenwern,Caerleon, Carpenter, Ceredigion, Clarendon, Pumlumon and Ty Gwerin Halls.

The University also own a small number of houses such as Penglais Farmhouse (Adjacent to Pentre Jane Morgan) and flats in Waun Fawr, which are let on an Assured Shorthold Tenure to students with families. Provision of disabled access rooms is catered for within the existing student village.