GCSU Housing Guide » 2 Mortimer Rd » Room 4

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The information given below is based on 4 reviews as well as the 2007/2008 room list.

Room Type and Floor
Single Room, £867 per term (in 2007/2008).
Room Floor
Ground floor
Room Facilities
Network available. Washbasin available.
Bedroom

Could swing something between a sheep and a cow (~1.9 HC).

Overlooking a court or garden.

Noise

“No noise problems at all.” (Jan 2008)

“NOt noisy at all, as its at the back of the house. Mortimer Road is quite quiet but reccommend not on street. Reagrding noise levels, the grad students can be funny if u have noise above a few decibels...but i suppose they're nice enough” (Feb 2007)

“Very quiet, except about once a year when a man cuts the hedges.” (Feb 2005)

“quite quiet thanks to being at the back of the house.” (Jan 2003)

Gyp Room

“Gyp room is one to the whole house (six people). It's a similar size to the old harvey court gyp rooms. It's just up one flight of stairs, very close!” (Jan 2008)

“just at top of flight of strairs shared by six, tiny” (Feb 2007)

“Tiny, sweltering, invariably filthy. A bit of a hole really. Oh, and the college hotplates can't even boil water.” (Feb 2005)

“tiny tiny tiny, shared between 6 of us.” (Jan 2003)

Bath Room

“The are two bathrooms in the house. One is on the ground floor, four metres or so from my room.” (Jan 2008)

“wicked, six share have to wait occassionally but not much. power shower.” (Feb 2007)

“There is a lovely *new shower*, a bathroom, and 2 toilets.” (Feb 2005)

“up two floors, with dreadful shower, but there's a loo on the ground floor.” (Jan 2003)

Furniture

“Nice wardrobe, fairly large desk.” (Jan 2008)

“nice desk, one armschair....lots of cupboard space but i prefer the floor.” (Feb 2007)

“Large desk, wooden armchair, slightly knackered bed, coffee table, dresser, chest of drawers, small wardrobe, bookshelf.” (Feb 2005)

“it has a very nice sideboard which lends a charming drawing room air.” (Jan 2003)

Best Feature

“The size.” (Jan 2008)

“its large windows looking out on the garden its really nice.” (Feb 2007)

“Nice view of garden, quiet, enormous windows let lots of light in the morning, quite a big room with a high ceiling.” (Feb 2005)

“large and quiet” (Jan 2003)

Worst Feature

“Distance from the centre of town, but this isn't that far---roughly a five to ten minute cycle.” (Jan 2008)

“grads downstairs.” (Feb 2007)

“Cold because of the enormous windows which are not double glazed. Unreliable heating - extremes of temperature.” (Feb 2005)

“no network connection” (Jan 2003)

General Comments

“its very nice - perfectly adequate. fine. good if anything. anyoning no netwrk - dont get NTL get SUPANET more expensive but it works!!!!!” (Feb 2007)

“Nice room, big and light. Bloody cold at times though.” (Feb 2005)

“The bedder will irritate you after a while. There is a Phd student and his wife living beneath the room and, although very pleasant, they will push little notes under your door if you make noise after about 10pm.” (Jan 2003)

Marks
7.5 out of 10 (2×7, 2×8)
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