UCL shower facilities
If you cycle to work, like me, you probably want to take a shower when you arrive. UCL has a page about their shower facilities but it’s a bit vague about which ones can be accessed and where they are. Here are the ones I’ve found or tried to find.
UCL Student Centre
(Yes, staff are allowed to use it). There are nice new showers in separate shower rooms near the toilets on floor B2, two down from ground level. They are not gendered. There is 24/7 card access from the Gordon Street entrance - you need a card for the entrance out of hours and at all times to access the down staircases - any of the staircases will do. It is a warren down there, be prepared to search. These are by far the best in terms of accessibility, shower quality, and opening times.
Wilkins lower floor
The men’s and women’s toilets on the lower floor of Wilkins (near the new shop and the overpriced vending machines) have showers. The men’s has a single toilet in the room with the mop wash opposite a row of cubicles, though it is sometimes closed and often not that clean. You can get access any time with a UCL card by going through the main UCL entrance on Gower Street then into Wilkins.
Malet Place Engineering
Any UCL staff card will get you through the barriers inside the entrance after 8am (maybe 830?), I’m not sure what time access stops but probably around 6. Turn right immediately, through the doors, down one floor, through the doors, there’s a shower in the men’s toilet next to the lift. Usually fairly clean, sometimes (but not often) locked.
Christopher Ingold (Chemistry) G2
This one is accessible on an ordinary staff card but you shouldn’t use it - it’s in the first aid/baby changing/breasfeeding/multipurpose quiet room and iirc you have to lock the whole place to use the shower. Plus it’s listed as an emergency shower in case of chemical accidents.
1-19 Torrington Place (Stats)
Alex Watson kindly informs me there is a shower in the stats department, 1-19 Torrington Place, on the 1st floor in the men’s toilets opposite the stats student common room. You should be able to access it on an ordinary staff card in normal office hours. I haven’t used it though.
Ones I looked for but couldn’t find
Physics - somewhere on the 4th floor. Anatomy b26 and b26a. Pharmacy - “on the mezzanine.” Tips welcome.