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Cheltenham Ladies’ College, St Helen’s

Client
The Cheltenham Ladies College
Location
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
Project Leaders
Mike Court
Value
2.2M

Challenge

Following the successful completion of a new build boarding house and a review of the boarding houses across the estate, Quattro was appointed as Education Architect by Cheltenham Ladies College to remodel St Helen’s and St Austin’s boarding houses.

These grade II listed buildings, built as boarding houses in the 1930’s, were in need of a complete refurbishment to meet the current independent school standards and bring the houses in line with the model layout developed by Quattro. As the site lies in a sensitive conservation area, our challenge was to deliver a design which would minimalise impact on the historic environment whilst providing state-of-the-art facilities for all users.

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Education
Independent Schools
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Cheltenham Ladies College St Helens
Cheltenham Ladies College St Helens
Cheltenham Ladies College St Helens
Cheltenham Ladies College St Helens
stairs at Cheltenham Ladies College St Helens

Solution

Extensive consultation with Cheltenham Ladies College and both planning and conservation officers at an early stage, along with a thorough detailed design, meant planning consent was achieved on a difficult and challenging site resulting in a hugely successful project.

Sympathetic to the sensitive conservation area and reinforcing the quality of the extensive portfolio of buildings of The Cheltenham Ladies’ College, the outcome was a final design that provides a 21st century facility for all the users of the building.

Minimal new build stair extensions, in a style sympathetic to the original, enabled a layout with similar internal adjacencies to Bunwell boarding house.

We selected the team because they combined experienced, imaginative and environmentally sensitive design capability with a highly responsive approach as regards the client brief, working within tight planning constraints whilst building a deep understanding of the students’ needs. In this regard, we were not disappointed.

Eve Jardine-Young, Principal
Cheltenham Ladies' College, Cheltenham

In 2013, we did not have a single integrated set of CAD plans for the campus, and we had limited understanding of how efficiently we used our current spaces. The Quattro team assembled this integrated set of plans, providing a highly detailed and useful overview through a space audit...cont/

Eve Jardine-Young, Principal
Cheltenham Ladies’ College, Cheltenham

...This was extremely detailed work, a project in which the overall flow and ‘elegance’ of movement throughout the estate was held in appropriate balance with the granular level of detail.

Eve Jardine-Young, Principal
Cheltenham Ladies’ College, Cheltenham

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Clients and Partners

Cheltenham College
Bath and North East Somerset Council
Churchill Academy and Sixth Form Centre
Department for Education
E G Carter & Co Ltd
Gloucestershire County Council
ESFA
Kier Living Ltd
Pate’s Grammar School
Queen Elizabeth Hospital School
Robert Hitchins Ltd
Stourport Primary Academy
Speller Metcalfe Ltd
Swindon Borough Council
The Chamwell Centre Charity
The Cheltenham Ladies College
The Crypt School
West Berkshire Council
Willmott Dixon Construction
Worcester Sixth Form College

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