Welcome to Whitelands College

Whitelands College, a 14-acre site overlooking Richmond Park, is home to the Department of Life Sciences and the Department of Psychology and offers state-of-the-art lecture spaces, seminar rooms, laboratories, social facilities and modern self-catering en-suite accommodation for resident students.

Within the College sits the grade I listed Georgian villa, Parkstead House, which was built in the early 1760’s for the 2nd Earl of Bessborough by Sir William Chambers, who was also the architect for Somerset House and the Pagoda at Kew Gardens.

Whitelands is one of the oldest higher education institutions in England, pre-dating every university except Oxford, Cambridge, London and Durham. It takes its name from the Georgian building in King’s Road Chelsea, where it was founded in 1841 by the Church of England’s National Society as a teacher training college for women.

Contact

Head of Whitelands College: Dr Geoffrey Walker
Email: geoffrey.walker@roehampton.ac.uk

Whitelands College
Holybourne Avenue
London
SW15 4JD
Tel: +44 (0)20 8392 3500