2016 Canterbury Architecture Awards Winner
Acland House - 'Old House'
The architects have successfully celebrated the formal and decorative ebullience of this grand house and simultaneously provided their clients with a very functional boarding facility. The Queen Anne-style features of R.W. England's original design are faithfully restored - the hexagonal turreted corner rooms, dominant projecting gable and arcaded timber veranda still speak of Victorian life and values. A daring architectural move, seamlessly achieved, is the transfer of a substantial feature staircase from one side of the house to the other. The ground floor is now principally a dining room for 150 boarders and, under the elaborate plastered ornamentation and moulded timber door and window frames, an unexpected but welcome stylishness is brought to the daily rituals of high-school boarding.
- Practice
- Dalman Architects Ltd
- Category
- Heritage
- Location
- Canterbury
