Studio Architects: NEW CLASSROOM

This single classroom extension, including a Resource Base area, store, cloakroom and toilets, replaces a mobile classroom long past its best. It forms the latest permanent increment of a vibrant and growing village school.

Both its form and materials relate to the large 1950s extension buildings of classrooms and Hall, strong and confident in design, which themselves extended the original single-room Victorian school.

The classroom is developed off a new circulation route from the Hall, creating a courtyard outside the kitchen and Resource Base, and thereby enjoys selfcontainment and expression.

Materials employed relate both to the original school room and the much later extension: reconstructed Bath-stone walling and Cotswold-stone slates in diminishing courses. Aluminium-framed windows and doors with polyester powder-coated finishes and insulated render, used on the secondary facades, give lie to the contemporary form of the extension.