School Location and Facilities

IH Bristol has 2 buildings, both located in the picturesque neighbourhood of Clifton, in easy walking distance of all Bristol’s main sights and attractions.

2 Queens Avenue

Our adult courses take place at 2 Queens Avenue, which we believe is the best located English language school site in Bristol:

  • First of all we are located in Clifton, Bristol’s most prestigious and desirable suburb.
  • Furthermore, although the building is set back on a mostly residential quiet road, 2 Queens Avenue is right in the heart of one of the eating and shopping hubs of Clifton: the nearest coffee shop is a 30 second walk away and you reach the Clifton Triangle area in about a 2 minute walk.
  • Bristol university is all around us, their Beacon House Study Centre is one of our neighbours: you should feel right at home surrounded by fellow students.
  • Transport connections: no fewer than eight (1,2,2a,3,4,8,72,72a) bus lines are practically on our doorstep. Clifton Down train station is about a 10 minute walk away and almost all other bus lines can be found about a 15 minute walk away on St Augustine’s Parade, also known as ‘The Centre’.
  • Need to get some supplies or a sandwich: we have some of the UK’s best supplied grocery chains available: Little Waitrose is a 3 minute walk, Sainsbury a 4 minute walk and M&S Simply Food an 8 minute walk.
  • Equidistant between Cabot Circus shopping centre and the Downs

The Building

If you study in Clifton you want to do it in a period building, right!? 2 Queens Avenue has those touches that remind you that you’re studying in a place that was built when queen Victoria was on the throne: geometric floor tiles in reception, high ceilings with coving and scrollwork and, of course, chandeliers.

Nevertheless, we have modernised where appropriate, with European styled bathroom facilities and a student common room with underfloor heating and sliding folding doors allowing us to open the whole of the back ‘wall’ of the student common room to the garden.

2 Queens Avenue Facilities

  • The student common room and all classrooms have large touch screen interactive Smart boards
  • Steelcase Node chairs in most classrooms with built-in storage space for your bags and belongings
  • Free wifi
  • The garden and ‘deck’: a private back garden and raised deck with bistro tables and chairs and considerable shelter from the rain or sun.
  • Our Yamaha B3 upright piano, for you to play
  • Table football and ping pong
  • Our ‘coffee point’ room with drinks machine, snacks machine and kitchenette with microwave and fridge

Front garden

Back garden

Walkthrough - see the building from the inside

Kitchenette and coffee point

2 Queen's Avenue location

Let's talk a bit about the location: we believe our 2 Queens Avenue building is the best located language school site in Bristol. Not only are we in Clifton, we are in the cultural and social heartland of Clifton, in amongst the university buildings and students and on the doorstep of countless coffee shops, eateries, shops, pubs (if you want) and buildings as iconic as the Wills Memorial Building, the Bristol Museum, the Victoria Rooms, Cabot Tower and the Royal West of England Academy. Fancy a sandwich or a barista-made coffee? You don't have go out any further than a 30 second walk but we've also got Caffè Nero, Waitrose, Cosmo, Subway, Illy caffe, Sainsbury and Wagamama inside a further 3 minutes.

Bristol's world class Cabot Circus shopping centre is only about a mile away, if you fancy a walk, or 15 minutes on the bus. Did we mention that we're extremely well served for nearby bus connections: no fewer than eight (1,2,2a,3,4,8,72,72a) bus lines have stops within a few minutes.

Brandon Hill, the harbourside, Cabot Circus, the Suspension Bridge and the Downs are all within easy walking distance.

 

27 Oakfield Road

This is our teacher training centre, junior summer school and winter programme and our primary exam centre. This building has our disabled access.

Transport connections are still very good: the bus stop for the 1,2,2a,3,4 and 72a buses is a 5 minute walk away and Clifton Down train station can be reached in 8 minutes.
Clifton’s premier shopping and dining street Whiteladies Road is 4 minutes away.

The Building

27 Oakfield Road is a beautiful period building with similar victorian features to 2 Queens Avenue: geometric floor tiles in reception, high ceilings with coving and scrollwork and, you guessed it, chandeliers.

27 Oakfield Road Facilities

  • The student common room and most classrooms have large touch screen interactive Smart boards
  • Steelcase Node chairs in most classrooms with built-in storage space for your bags and belongings
  • Free wifi
  • Table football and ping pong
  • Nintendo Switch controller and couch cooperation games available (up to 8 players)
  • Common room with snacks and cold drinks machine
  • Kitchenette with microwave and fridge