PROJECTS

HEALTHCARE

We designed the extension to Sobell House Hospice to accommodate the increase in the need for palliative care of fragile patients with more complex needs, such as Dementia, living in Oxfordshire.

On the ground floor, the building is split between six new bedrooms and ensuites for the palliative care of patients and also includes a new Lymphedema clinic. The first floor accommodates staff changing and welfare facilities and the hospice’s charitable offices and administration spaces.

Client: Sobell House Hospice
Contractor: Kingerlee Ltd
Photographer : Working Images

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The refurbished Paediatric A&E Department at Hillingdon Hospital forms part of Hillingdon Hospital Foundation NHS Trust strategic plan to improve the outdated model of emergency services for Paediatrics within the hospital. The new layout increases the number of bed spaces in the department, to ensure that dedicated staff deal with specific needs in the right place and at the right time and that any duplication and inefficiency is removed from the system.

Client: Hillingdon Hospital

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Refurbished with a grant from the Department of Health Capital Investment initiative, Beaconsfield East is a 20 bed rehabilitation ward for older adults, many of whom have dementia. The ward has been organized into 4 x 4-bedded bays and 4 single rooms with additional reception, sensory areas and utility service areas.

Client: The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Contractor: Storm Building Ltd.
Construction Cost: £550k

Awards
Building Better Healthcare Awards, Winner

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EDUCATION

The long term upgrading and extension of Radley College has involved the creation of two new-build boarding houses (or ‘Socials’) on the edge of Green Belt land. In doing so, we have established an interior styling which will be rolled out in the refurbishment of all twelve existing Socials. This scheme involved the reorganisation of some existing tutors' houses and a major new-build addition of staff and boys' accommodation. Each Social houses 65 boys with a mix of cubicle sleeping accommodation and single study bedrooms, as well as communal spaces.

Client: Radley College

Contractor: Feltham

Photographer: Matt Livey

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The scope of the project involved establishing a new aesthetic language for the building, one which responds to both the character of the original structure and its later extensions. Existing spaces have been refreshed and reconfigured to work alongside a series of new extensions to increase the number of laboratories for both Physics and Chemistry. The primary extension is a new purpose built 190 seat Science Lecture Theatre (SLT).

Client: Radley College
Contractor: Feltham Construction
Construction Cost: £5m

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New theatre with its 400 seat auditorium forms a courtyard link between the existing Music School on one side and the Modern Languages building, including a studio theatre on the other. The new building was planned to take advantage of the storey height level change between both existing structures. The theatre entrance and foyer space is located at the highest point, adjacent to the Music School and gives access to the rear of the auditorium where tiered seating leads down to the proscenium stage and orchestra pit at the lower end.

Client: Radley College
Contractor: Kingerlee Limited
Construction Cost: £3.2m

Awards
Vale of White Horse Design Awards

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DEFENCE

We have worked on over 100 projects at various MoD sites and Barracks in England. Our project experience includes full multi-disciplinary services from RIBA Stages 0-7, condition surveys, lifecycle reports, quadrennial surveys, full building surveys, and annual facility condition reports. We have a unique understanding of military sites and have long standing professional relationships with the defence contractors.

Recent projects include an external refurbishment of a Grade II Listed MoD building in Central London, full internal and external refurbishment of Officer’s Blocks, internal improvements to a museum and library facility.

Our staff and sub-consultants are security cleared for MoD and Parliament sites.

The Denison Building is a teaching and administration building at the Royal School of Military Engineering in Chatham. It is CLASP building – a system devised in the 1950s by local authorities for providing quick and simple prefabricated building solutions for use in the public sector – and had been altered and updated very little since it was constructed in around 1967.

Our brief was to update the building and improve its thermal performance. We opted to remove the original timber and single-glazed cladding and replace it with an aluminium curtain wall system, with high-performance glazing to the south elevation and brise soleil to give solar shading. Internally the building was fully refurbished, with new mechanical and electrical services, and improved ventilation to the teaching spaces. The teaching rooms included a number of laboratories, workshops and a lecture theatre, all of which were re-fitted as part of the contract.

Client: Babcock International
Contractor: Walker Construction
Construction Cost: £3.5m

CONSERVATION

Corpus Christi College, founded in 1517, is one of Oxford’s oldest Colleges. While its role in England’s religious history is famous, its Grade 1 Listed chapel had been neglected. There was a lack of storage, the lighting and acoustics were poor, the fine timber ceiling was dark, delicate carvings of the screen and cornices were damaged and plaster had perished.

Client: Corpus Christi College
Contractor: Kingerlee Ltd & Cliveden Conservation Ltd
Photographer Matt Livey
Awards Oxford Preservation Trust Awards

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We were appointed by St John’s College to carry out a major refurbishment of The Judges’ House; number 16 St Giles’, Oxford. The building, owned by St John’s College, dates from 1702 and has a Grade II* Listing. The refurbishment works included the construction of a new basement kitchen, improvement of toilet facilities and access improvements including a retractable lift at the rear. These measures have enhanced the functionality of the building and make it more suited for its use.

Client: St John's College
Contractor: Wooldridge & Simpson
Completion: December 2020

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A unique Regency villa in North Oxford, this property narrowly avoided redevelopment due to a campaign by local residents’ which resulted in a Grade II* Listing. The future of the property was secured when it was subsequently purchased by our client for use as a family home. This is an important property in North Oxford and a substantial degree of research into the history of the building and gardens was carried out. Close collaboration during the design process with the City Council’s Conservation Officer and English Heritage resulted in careful attention to detail in the restoration of original features while creating a contemporary family home. The results are impressive and demonstrate the success of a close working partnership between our client, Gray Baynes + Shew, interior designer Hugh Leslie and the builder Symm & Co which has created a much-loved family home.

Client: Private Owner
Contractor: Symm & Co Ltd
Construction Cost: £2.0m

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RESIDENTIAL

The challenge was to create a house of this size within the site curtilage, and with the support of the planners, the new house is almost twice the size of the original it replaced. Anchored within the existing mature gardens, a south facing frontage and the majority of the garden open to the public, the T-shape design creates a secluded rear garden. Design detail in the structure and fabric of the house is evident throughout, from the bespoke wood stair panelling, the under floor wine cellar and oval hallway to the juxtaposition of green oak posts with the ashlar and brick façades.

Client: Private
Contractor: Hillsdon Construction
Construction Cost: £900,000

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A unique Regency villa in North Oxford, this property narrowly avoided redevelopment due to a campaign by local residents’ which resulted in a Grade II* Listing. The future of the property was secured when it was subsequently purchased by our client for use as a family home. This is an important property in North Oxford and a substantial degree of research into the history of the building and gardens was carried out. Close collaboration during the design process with the City Council’s Conservation Officer and English Heritage resulted in careful attention to detail in the restoration of original features while creating a contemporary family home. The results are impressive and demonstrate the success of a close working partnership between our client, Gray Baynes + Shew, interior designer Hugh Leslie and the builder Symm & Co which has created a much-loved family home.

Client: Private Owner
Contractor: Symm & Co Ltd
Construction Cost: £2.0m

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COMMERCIAL

YWCA Central Club purchased this 7 storey office building dating from around 1980 and, in 2010, and appointed Gray Baynes + Shew to design the conversion to accommodate their new headquarters, now known as ‘The Bridge’. The charity was established in 1932 and was previously based in Portland Place.

The Bridge was officially opened by Lucy Shuker, Britain’s top female wheelchair tennis player and includes the following facilities; a restaurant/café on the ground floor which also serves the local community; a fully equipped gym and exercise studio together with changing and shower facilities; offices, training and seminar rooms; wellbeing treatment rooms.

Client: YWCA Central Club
Contractor: Overbury London
Construction Cost: £1.5m

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This office reorganisation needed to accommodate between 60 and 90 personnel over two floors and within 4 different departments. Each department was designed to be within an open plan space in clearly visible zones. Glazed screens and partitions were used to create the zones as well as cellular offices and meeting rooms. A ground floor reception area was created with access to a staff area and a kitchen and lunch room on the first floor.

Client: Gifford Limited
Contractor: RMD Builders Limited
Construction Cost: £300k

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