Hey, am going to be in Shirley Lodge aswell, floor 1, what floor you on? Are you male or female as am not use if its going to be male on the ground floor and then female on the first floor

Reply 27

GSBell

Original post by Kimberleyc28

Hi. I'm in GMS too , in wistow house ! :smile:

Hey! I was in Wistow House last year and it was great, really sociable. If you have any questions feel free to ask :smile:

Reply 28

oke186

Original post by GSBell

Hey! I was in Wistow House last year and it was great, really sociable. If you have any questions feel free to ask :smile:

Hi I'm going to be in wistow house too. I just wanted to know What's the room are like? Etc

Posted from TSR Mobile

Reply 29

GSBell

Original post by oke186

Hi I'm going to be in wistow house too. I just wanted to know What's the room are like? Etc

Posted from TSR Mobile

The rooms are surprisingly quite spacious. You've got a single bed, large desk, bed side table and two chairs. You have a built in wardrobe which has two shelves and space at the bottom for shoes; and the bathroom is a decent size too. Compared to the several houses around you (except Bowder Court) Witstow and Withcote have the best rooms by far, and there were rumours that they might have redecorated them over the summer.

The radiators are a bit temperamental, but that only really matters in the winter as the rooms can get quite hot in the summer. Don't worry about things that say "hot water is from 7-10" or whatever, I found that hot water runs all throughout the day.

There is a kitchen on each floor. Ground floor is for 12 people and first floor is for 14 (as you have the two people on second first floor too). There's enough space for everyone to have a cupboard, but there's only 4 chairs and it can get quite cramped in the kitchen during pre-drinks. In the kitchens you get a kettle, microwave and a convection oven which you can cook pretty much anything in.

Between Withcote and Wistow House there is a fire door which was open all of last year, so should hopefully be open this year too; but this basically means that you have a large group of people (of about 50) to socialise which is great!

Reply 30

GSBell

Original post by oke186

Hi I'm going to be in wistow house too. I just wanted to know What's the room are like? Etc

Posted from TSR Mobile

They also put restrictors on the window whilst I was living there last year which are a pain in the summer when all you want to do is open the window as wide as possible! But the thing with these restrictors is that they only put them in a few rooms so you may not get one depending on what room you are in.

Reply 31

Av27

Original post by kj100

Hey, am going to be in Shirley Lodge aswell, floor 1, what floor you on? Are you male or female as am not use if its going to be male on the ground floor and then female on the first floor

I am a boy and i am in The ground floor . Where u from?

Reply 32

oke186

Original post by GSBell

Ahhkayy .... Thank you. I couldn't really find any pictures of wistow house so this has really helped. I'm going to be on the first floor. Room 20. 😊

Posted from TSR Mobile

Reply 33

UOLBobby

Hey I'm Bobby studying English BA [Single Hons]
I'm living at John Foster Hall Barkby Flr. If you live nearby I'd love to say hi! :-)
<Contact details and personal information removed by mod. Please use PM>

Reply 34

GSBell

Original post by oke186

Ahhkayy .... Thank you. I couldn't really find any pictures of wistow house so this has really helped. I'm going to be on the first floor. Room 20. ��

Posted from TSR Mobile

No Problem :smile:

I could have a look through some of my friends photos if you wanted to see any? Ah nice! My best friend was in room 20. It's the closet one to the boys house, but it does have a restrictor on the window though you'll be fine in the summer as your room gets the sun in the evening rather than in the morning so it won't be as hot.

Reply 35

kj100

Original post by Av27

I am a boy and i am in The ground floor . Where u from?

Am from london, What about you?

Reply 36

Anshul Agarwal

Original post by GSBell

No Problem :smile:

Hey, I am going to be staying in the Withcote House...Can you tell me something more about it?

Reply 37

UOLBobby

[h="1"]Who are my neighbours? John Foster Hall Barkby Flr 0 Flat 2 Room A![/h]

Reply 38

GSBell

Original post by Anshul Agarwal

Hey, I am going to be staying in the Withcote House...Can you tell me something more about it?

Sure! It's an identical layout to Wistow House but with one less room on the top floor (if you see my post to oke186 a little further up you'll see a description of the room and kitchen). What room are you in? Some of the rooms are a little smaller than the others because they are corner rooms which means the bathrooms are tiny too :frown:

It's about a 10 minute walk away from Asda, and if you walk a 5 more minutes you reach Weatherspoons which is the local pub that's not in Oadby village. Withcote and Wistow are surrounded by several other houses of the same kind, which is great as everyone just spills out during pre-drinks and you meet loads of people :biggrin:

The bus stop is about a 2 minute walk away and the gym is about 5 minutes away. Don't know if this covered what you were after but I'm happy to answer any more questions you have about halls, social life etc

(edited 9 years ago)

Reply 39

oke186

Original post by GSBell

No Problem :smile:

Ahhkayy I see .... & that would be great thanks. So is wistow house an all girls house then ? And then there is an all boys house next door ? How is the social life ? And what is freshers week like ? Etcc

Posted from TSR Mobile