Great place and management. The rooms are spacious and the kitchen is well thought out. The management even improved the heating during the cold winter after receiving feedback. Only gripe is that there is no kettle or vacuum cleaner (unless you go to the reception).
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Great place and management. The rooms are spacious and the kitchen is well thought out. The management even improved the heating during the cold winter after receiving feedback. Only gripe is that there is no kettle or vacuum cleaner (unless you go to the reception).
The Refinery Information
| Telephone | 011 3512 1125 |
| Postcode | LS3 1BZ |
| Price from | £180.00 per week for 24/25 (subject to availability) |
| Features | 15-minute walk from the University of Leeds & Leeds Beckett University, roof terrace, social space, gym, cinema room, coffee station, study area & events. |
| Top tip | Book now and receive a £150 UBER voucher. Visit the website for more details. |
The Refinery Biography
The Refinery is perfectly located as it’s within walking distance from the University of Leeds, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds City College and a bus ride from Leeds Trinity University. The train station and shopping centre are also within walking distance and there are plenty of restaurants and shops right on your doorstep.
There are fantastic amenities for you to enjoy. The rooftop terrace offers stunning views and is a great space to hang out with friends. There is a gym, cinema room, coffee station and a social area that has a TV, Xbox and a pool table. You can also benefit from the quiet study area, laundry facilities, vending machines and social events hosted throughout the year.
The Refinery has a wide range of modern studios and en-suite rooms, with a shared kitchen and living space, to choose from. All of the rooms are furnished with a small double bed, plenty of storage space, a workspace and an en-suite shower room. The studios are fitted with a mini-kitchen and are the perfect choice if you are looking for more private living.
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Great place and management. The rooms are spacious and the kitchen is well thought out. The management even improved the heating during the cold winter after receiving feedback. Only gripe is that there is no kettle or vacuum cleaner (unless you go to the reception).
The perfect student accommodation
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Close to the city centre, good value for money.
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It’s a nice and clean and socialable plave
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The refinery is a great place to stay if your a student great social areas and the whole facilities are amazing
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Being far away from home and coming here made me feel relieved because of the friendly staff, a really comfy bed and fun housemates. I’m really enjoying my time here.
It is a nice place to live in the environment is also great
Very friendly staff and happy space to study.
it‘s really beautiful Accommodation
A amazing experience in there. And I love it
Honestly one of the best accommodations that I’ve stayed at with brilliant facilities
The best accommodation experience fr
Amazing staff and amazing accommodation
Clean, sophisticated place. Found great friends here. Thank God for the vending machine!
Been living here since Oct and its been a great experience!
everything is really nice nice experience all the time！thanks for all the services！the experience all the good here
The Refinery is a great place with good facilities, great staff and good rooms.
It is a wonderful student accommodation.
Whenever I had any problems during my stay, the apartment solved it well for me and the atmosphere was very nice
I strongly recommend it！ its service and infrastructure verycomprehensive！
I like the life here, kitchen is so big where I can enjoy the sunshine at noon. All my flatmates are so nice, they added more fun with me.
Everything is perfect！The receptions are really pretty!
I have a good experience!The reception also very good!
excellent！！excellent！！I love this place very much, and I will recommend it to others
it’s new. The room is clean and tidy, the location is good. The environment is very quiet.
It’s so good. The service in this apartment is very good, the staff is very welcoming and the repairs are prompt.
Everything is perfect! I like it!
The Refinery is the best student accommodation I have stayed in till now. The staff is extremely friendly and helpful.
Great location, very clean facilities and friendly and helpful staff. Building is secure and safe , kitchen is big and rooms are cosy and have great storage.
The accommodation is great value for money and in a brilliant location
Great building, would recommend, friendly staff
Very good acomadarion, good showers compared to allot of other students accommodations in leeds
The common area is quite big and clean, it’s suitable for students to have chat, network here. The staff here is very patient and nice. They help me solve daily issues in a foreign country.
very good , the staffs are really kind.
So glad I picked this accommodation. It’s so Modern with a lot of facilities and the staff are so so helpful and always respond quickly when you need help. I’ve even convinced 2 of my friends to live here with me next year because they all love it when they come visit me. It’s close to everything I need- uni, food shops an work in city centre
Very nice and modern student accommodation, one of the best ones in leeds. Within walkable distance to the city centre and supermarkets. Always felt safe here with 24 hour security who were friendly and always available. Despite my university campus located in headingley, a bus stop was a 2 min walk so very accessible. Overall would recommend even though it is on the more pricey side but if you can afford to i would spend the extra.
I love staying at The Refinery because it feels so welcoming. The staff is always very understanding and helpful. There are activities for each month and there are regular cleanliness checks. Someone always helps me out regardless of the time - may it be early morning or late night. I see many accommodations around but I like mine the best :)
Great location, the rooms are so nice and cosy so a nice home away from home really good bathrooms as well. Lovely staff to add on top of it all x
Really friendly reception staff, the place is always clean and social areas are also kept clean. The best accom in leeds :)
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This accom is very welcoming for both residents and their guests. My boyfriend stayed here this year and the reception staff were lovely and welcoming towards us both, leading to me booking here next year. The facilities are great and the rooms are in great condition with any maintenance being done straight away and the public areas always being clean. The booking process was easy and the staff were more then happy to accommodate any requests i had.
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The accommodation is wicked but I’m only writing this cause i need another key card
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The refinery is my favorite flat.The first reason I choose to live there is its location. It only takes me 5-10 minutes to walk to school. The second reason is its facilities. I just need to go downstairs to play billiards and do some exercises.
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When I first arrived at the refinery the staff were so lovely and welcoming and made me feel at home straight away. I was the only one in my flat for a while so they made sure I was okay and not lonely :) would definitely recommend I love this place!!
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Great place to live in leeds, near loads of other accommodations as well.
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I’ve had a wonderful time at The Refinery! The staff is extremely friendly and available to offer any help/assistance when needed. The location is great, as it’s walkable to city centre and to the university. The social spaces are great, I particularly love the cinema room and roof terrace. I’ve loved my time here so much that I’ve rebooked for next year and can’t wait to spend time in a studio.
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Modern accommodation and friendly staff
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It has been been a good time there with a friendly team
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Staffs are very helpful and kind. The accommodations facilities are also good. For the room, I am living in a studio room type and I found that the room is very large and the facilities in the room are very good too.
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Good value for money, plenty of space for socialising and property management are friendly and ideal for any problems apparent.
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Excellent accommodation, great social spaces and friendly staff.
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Staff are so so friendly! Steph always has time to help me. I’ve lived there since September and have rebooked for next year, even if I get on my masters I’ll stay. Mainly because I hate moving, but also because of the staff and it’s really close to campus so is convenient for me.
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So as a fourth year student returning from a year on an industrial placement, I was looking for a comfortable place in Leeds to return for my final years. The refinery really suits me because of how close it is to the university, the city and other popular locations where students stay such as Hyde park. This means that I am able to go everywhere I need to within walking distance, whether it’s for sport, social events or university classes. The accommodation is also comfortable and has a great support team, who are really friendly and were able to fix any maintenance issues (which were themselves rare) within a day (which is much faster than most). The internet is pretty much perfect, and has been reliable for doing a lot of university work online. Finally, the gym is extremely useful and there are great social facilities if needed. Removing your waste or doing your washing is relatively easy as well. The only negative would be paying for washing facilities on top of your rent.
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absolutely amazing first year experience in the refinery!! i especially love the location as it’s so close to the city centre, university & shops. the cinema room & socials areas are outstanding. i’ve made friends for life here:)
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Great social space downstairs with the pool table and the gym. The kitchen is spacious and room sizes also. WIFI is also great and never plays up.
Living in the refinery makes me feel at home, every one is so earnest and helpful! We also have intricate decoration in different holidays！I even received a red envelope from our lovely reception in Chinese Spring Festival！
Very good and new place, nice reception, i really like common areas including gym, library and movies room.
The Refinery is a very well maintained student accommodation with lots of greatly managed communal areas, friendly and welcoming staff . The cleanliness and facilities available easily surpass previous student accommodations I’ve lived in before
Amazing staff and definitely the best accommodation in Leeds
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Lovely staff and great place to live!
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Great 1st year experience in leeds
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Absolutely brilliant! Staff are lovely! Nice modern facilities and social areas!! Flats are great, rooms and kitchens well laid out! Highly recommend
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I have really enjoyed my first semester here. The rooms and really big and the bathroom is by far the nicest i’ve seen in any student accommodation. The kitchen is so airy and bright and has a really nice view. The social areas and study areas downstairs are amazing and have lots of facilities. Would definitely recommend to anyone wanted to look for an amazing accommodation first year.
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very welcoming staff, who are supportive and always events on for social experiences every month, with a lot of social space available.
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very good including service and room. reception is so kindful.
Can't say anything bad about this place. It's nice and new, en-suite room size is just enough though the bed size and mattress quality are mediocre at best if you're taller and a bit spoiled from home. Very helpful and nice staff as well as the night-time security. Can get very noisy with all the drunk students in the area, however, and the pub opposite the building has some questionable customers. Still, deffo wouldn't mind staying here another year again.
Such a pretty accommodation to stay at, rooms and bathrooms are really nice! Roof terrace is the best thing here! Staff are kind and the building is always clean. Would definitely recommend if you’re looking for more of a chill vibe accommodation as the social side isn’t the best in terms of people and parties, however its right next to other student accommodations, 10 min walk from the city centre.
I live in the commercial apartment
Really nice rooms, studios are great value for money. All the team are really nice, happy to help with anything at all and always organising things to do. Building is always clean and tidy, and facilities are good!
Best accommodation I have lived in so far! Friendly, very helpful staff, good ammenties and good distance from Leeds beckett. They're also very quick to sort any maintenance issues in rooms or flats.
Brilliantt place to stay with excellent staff
Good facilities, great staff! The building is well managed and reception is always super helpful. Has been amazing having an on site gym
Nicest accom team around, very welcoming staff including cleaners and maintenance. Free dual occupancy is a very good deal for value for money. Nice new building in a great central location.
The reception staff are really nice and friendly!
Brand new building, lots of international students, 10 min walk from city centre
Staff are very friendly and welcoming. The social spaces and activities such as the gym and cinema room provide a lot to the experience with your friends
Top accommodation, friendly staff that have done brilliantly through an incredibly hard year to do so
Lovely staff and really nice, modern flats
Lovely receptionist are super friendly and lovely, it’s a secure building and always clean and happy to help to help!
Really good accommodation nice rooms, en-suites and staff. Next to a co-op and a short walk from the city centre and university campuses. Would totally recommend.
The reception staff at the accommodation are lovely and always aim to provide good service. Very friendly and would recommend.
My daughter has been here a week - chosen a private hall as daughter was allocated Clarence Dock by the Uni, but she didn’t want to live so far away from the campus. On enquiring we were sold on the building being new, with good social spaces, gym, told on booking there were plenty of UOL freshers, and they would have plenty of opportunity to socialise. However, the reality is that the hall is half empty, there are hardly any freshers, let a one UOL freshers, here, the building is not finished so there is building noise all day (and with only online teaching this is not great for actually being able to hear the lectures!), they can not use the social spaces without booking, and only as a flat. The ladies who run it are ‘scary’ according to daughter and seem to ‘discourage’ them from meeting anyone outside their flat. The roof terrace is not finished/safe so they can not get an escape from their flat, and apart form very nice flatmates, it is a quiet lonely place to live.