Understanding your room number

Posted 2 months ago

Where will you be living this year? Let's find out

You will receive your room number just before arriving to halls. This is when you'll find out exactly where you'll be living in your Hall.

On arrival, our hall reception teams will be able to help point you in the right direction when checking in. In the meantime, you can get more of an understanding of what your room number means here... 

  • The letter at the start of your room number is your core.
  • The first number is the floor you are on; the number 1 would be first floor etc. Lower floors use letters - G being ground floor, LG being Lower Ground Floor.
  • The final three digits of your room number show your cluster flat and room number in the cluster flat. For example, A1.303 is Core A, Floor 1, Cluster flat 3, bedroom 03 and DG.105 in Block 2 is Core D, Ground Floor, Cluster flat 1, bedroom 05.



  • The letter at the start of your room number is your Block.
  • The first number is the floor you are on; the number 1 would be first floor etc. Lower floors use letters - G being ground floor, LG being Lower Ground Floor.
  • The last two numbers are your flat number and your room number within that flat.
    For example, A132 is Block A, Floor 1, Flat 3, bedroom 2 and DG21 is Block D, Ground Floor, Flat 2, bedroom 1.



  • The letter is your core / building.
  • The first number is the floor you are on; the number 1 would be first floor etc. Lower floors use letters - G being ground floor, M being mezzanine and LG being lower ground floor.
  • The remaining numbers are your flat and room number in that flat.
    For example, UG.503 in Rathbone is Core U, Ground Floor, Cluster flat 5, bedroom 03 Another example, T2.208 in Derby is Core T, 2nd Floor, Cluster flat 2, bedroom 08



  • The first number is your house number
  • The second number is your room number in the house (there are around 7 rooms per house).
    For example, 487 is house number 48, room 7



  • The letter at the start of your room number is your Block.
  • The first number is the floor you are on; the number 1 would be first floor etc. Lower floors use letters - G being ground floor, LG being Lower Ground Floor.
  • The last two numbers are your flat number and your room number within that flat.
    For example, A132 is Block A, Floor 1, Flat 3, bedroom 2 and DG21 is Block D, Ground Floor, Flat 2, bedroom 1.



Houses 1 to 4 are in the middle of the site; 5 to 8 are along the front on Mulberry Street; 9 to 12 are at the rear of the site and 13 to 15 are at the side looking over Oxford Street.


  • The letter at the start of your room number is your block; there are three blocks in the West Block (A, B and C) and three in the East Block (D, E and F).
  • The first number is the floor you are on; the number 1 would be first floor etc. Lower floors use letters - G being ground floor, GM being mezzanine.
  • The rest of your room number is your room on that floor.
    For Example, A3059 is A block, 3rd floor, room 59 and CGM014 is C block, Mezzanine floor, room 14.



Get to know your new home a little better. Click below to find out more about your Hall:

-Welcome to Crown Place

-Welcome to Greenbank Student Village

-Welcome to Vine Court

-Welcome to Melville Grove

-Welcome to Tudor Close

-Welcome to Philharmonic Court

-Welcome to Dover Court

Once you understand your number, you can start to meet your flatmates by joining your Hall's Facebook group.