6 bed student house to rent The Avenue, Durham, DH1

One room is still available in this house for 2025-26.

Our student houses have a well deserved reputation as the best in Durham, with immaculate attention to details such as clipped bay trees outside your front door and beautiful plantation shutters at the windows. You deal with us directly, not through an agent, and many say we look after our tenants better than any other Durham landlord.

This viaduct house in the center of Durham City is extremely spacious and very comfortable, and will provide you with an exceptional and exclusive home from home. All of your bills are included in the rent, we clean the communal areas once a week, free of charge, and it has beautiful and abundant outdoor space with a large, tiered deck for BBQs, sunbathing and socialising.

Every bedroom is large and has a proper double bed, with a top quality deep comfy mattresses. You’ll spend up to half of your time in this bed whilst renting your student house, so this is VERY important.

This house has an Aga providing a cozy warm heart to the home. It also makes a perfect drier for wet sports kit, and is extremely cost effective and energy efficient. There’s also a secondary cooker and hob for busy cooking times and as a backup.

As well as oozing character from their original 19th Century period features, this house has other unique features such as:
Beautiful and practical stripped floorboards and parquet floors.
Attractive and contemporary sofa’s and arm chairs, a large dining table for communal eating and dinner parties, abundant cloths washing and drying facilities and ample fridge and freezer storage space for six of you.

Safety is paramount with full mains wired smoke detection systems, fire doors to every habitable room providing a secure fire escape route, full gas and electrical safety certification, full Government HMO Standards certification and full DSU Code of Standards certification.

We employ a full time maintenance team who service only our properties. They keep the houses in good shape and respond rapidly to any maintenance requests you may have.

Additional Details
BEDROOMS: Six double bedrooms. All are large and spacious with attractive metal framed double beds. High quality comfy mattresses
BROADBAND: Fast Fiber
LOCATION: Close to the Viaduct. Nearest student pubs – Elm Tree and Colpits within 400 metres.
HEATING: Gas central heating and instant hot water. Aga – An energy efficient cosy warm heart to the house.
TV: Flat screen HD TV
COVER: 24 hour emergency maintenance cover
SAFETY: Mains wired smoke detector system and fire extinguishers
BATHROOMS: Newly re-fitted bathrooms
UTILITY ROOM: Extra to kitchen
APPLIANCES: Large capacity washing machine. Large fridge/freezers. Dishwasher. Microwave.
DECOR: Beautiful Victorian fireplaces. Beautiful and practical stripped floorboards. Huge rooms, period features yet with a contemporary feel.
OUTSIDE: Decked BBQ area out back with additional lawned garden
OTHER: Comfy sofa's in separate large living room. Large dining table, ideal for dinner parties
Cleaning: Occasional clean of communal areas is included