Student accommodation in Gateshead

Student housing in Gateshead, Newcastle

Student housing in Gateshead puts you on the south bank of the Tyne, one bridge away from both of Newcastle's universities, usually for less than a comparable room in the city centre. Housr's search lets you filter by weekly price, bedroom count, and whether you want a single room, a studio, or a full house, then check the map to see how close a place actually sits to the river crossings that get you into town.

Gateshead has its own high street, a Metro station in the town centre, and a skyline of landmarks that face Newcastle across the water.

What's around Gateshead

Gateshead Quays is the obvious draw. The Glasshouse International Centre for Music, known as Sage Gateshead until its rename in 2023, hosts the Royal Northern Sinfonia and a full calendar of gigs under its curved roof. Next door, the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art occupies a converted 1950s flour mill, free to enter, with SIX Rooftop on the top floor for river views over a plate of food that costs more than your weekly shop but is worth it once a term. The Gateshead Millennium Bridge, the tilting pedestrian and cycle crossing locals call the Blinking Eye, links the Quays straight to Newcastle's Quayside in a few minutes on foot.

Back in the town centre, Trinity Square has a Vue cinema, a Tesco Extra, and a run of food outlets, built on the site of the multi-storey car park that starred in Get Carter before it was demolished in 2010. Saltwell Park, a 55-acre Victorian park with the Grade II listed Saltwell Towers at its centre, sits a short walk south and was voted Britain's Best Park in 2005. It falls inside Gateshead's own boundary, and Housr covers it separately if you're weighing up what living near Saltwell Park is actually like.

Further out along the A167, the Angel of the North stands over the road into town, one of the most-viewed sculptures in the country and reachable by bus from Gateshead Interchange if you fancy the trip.

Getting around

The Tyne Bridge and the Millennium Bridge mean you can walk into Newcastle without touching a bus timetable. From central Gateshead it's roughly 25 to 30 minutes on foot to Newcastle University, less if you're starting from the Quays.

For anything quicker, Gateshead Metro station sits underground beneath the town centre on both the Green and Yellow lines: one stop from Newcastle Central, two from Monument, where both universities' campuses cluster. Gateshead Interchange next to it is the hub for Go North East's bus network, including the Angel 21, named after the sculpture it passes on its route between Newcastle, Low Fell, and Chester-le-Street.

Universities near Gateshead

Both of Newcastle's universities sit directly across the river rather than tucked away elsewhere in the city. Newcastle University clusters around Haymarket, a couple of Metro stops from Gateshead, while Northumbria University's city campus spreads across Haymarket, Monument, and Manors, all on the same short hop.

Accommodation in Gateshead

Search student accommodation Gateshead has on the market through Housr's filters for weekly price, bedroom and bathroom count, and whether you want a single room, a studio, or a shared house. Riverside conversions near the Quays tend to come as studios and en-suites, while the terraced streets further into the town centre and towards Saltwell have more of the housing landlords let by the room to groups of four to six.

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