Student Accommodation in Braunstone

Student housing in Braunstone, Leicester

When students talk about Braunstone, they usually mean Braunstone Gate and the West End just over the River Soar from De Montfort University. Finding student housing in Braunstone, Leicester on Housr is simple: set your weekly budget, choose your bedrooms and bathrooms, and compare what's free on a map or a list.

It's one of the most student-heavy parts of the city, popular with DMU students and Royal Infirmary staff alike, mainly because you can live here and walk to campus.

What's around Braunstone Gate and the West End

This is one of the liveliest corners of Leicester. Braunstone Gate is the street that runs up towards DMU and the QEII Leisure Centre, lined with bars, cafés, and takeaways that stay busy through term.

Just beyond it, Narborough Road is the area's real character: one of the most multicultural streets in the country, packed with Turkish cafés, Polish delis, Indian restaurants, and diners, so cheap and varied food is never a problem. The River Soar and Bede Park give you green space and a riverside walk on the edge of it all.

Getting around

Braunstone Gate's best feature is that you can walk to DMU in minutes. For everywhere else, frequent buses run along Narborough Road and Braunstone Gate into the city centre and out to the suburbs.

The city centre is a short walk or bus across the river, and Leicester railway station is a quick bus or a 20-minute walk for trips further afield. It's flat and easy to cycle.

Universities near Braunstone

The area is De Montfort's natural backyard.

De Montfort University is right across the River Soar, often a five to ten-minute walk, which is the whole reason the West End is so popular. The University of Leicester is on the other side of the city centre, a longer walk or a short bus ride, so this side leans towards DMU students.

Accommodation in Braunstone

The West End is shared-house territory, Victorian terraces of four to seven bedrooms aimed at student groups, with some converted flats and a few purpose-built blocks closer to DMU. On Housr you can filter by weekly price, number of bedrooms, number of bathrooms, and single rooms or studios, then shortlist what's near campus. For more studio options, the city centre has the bulk of them.

Find your place with Housr. Browse student accommodation in Braunstone, see the wider Leicester student housing map, or look at the city centre for more studios.

Bills, sorted

A West End house share full of DMU students doesn't need a bills row on top of deadlines. Housr Bills rolls energy, water, and WiFi into one monthly payment with free Contents Cover included, so your stuff's protected and nobody's the house accountant. Everyone pays their own share, and split liability means one missed payment doesn't fall on the rest.

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