Cumnor House School - the Hovels

Six new classrooms and a craft design technology studio at a coeducational preparatory school in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in Sussex.

The building replaces an earlier farm building, and forms one element of a wider landscape proposal to rationalise and refine the vehicle and pedestrian routes across the site, and reinforce the existing emerging structure of the school buildings as a series of interrelated courtyards, each with a different and complementary character.

Following the successful completion of this project in March 2006, MBA were commissioned to develop a master plan and landscape proposals for the school's continued expansion, and to design a new theatre for the school which was completed in August 2008.

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Client: Cumnor House School
Contractor: Baker Construction
QS: Pierce Hill
Structural Engineers: Fluid Structures
Architects: Marcus Beale, Roger Meadows, Heather Shepherd, Felix Lang.