Project: Children’s Hospice South West, Charlton Farm, Wraxall, Bristol

Client: Children’s Hospice South West

Value: £9.0m

Contract: JCT 1998

Duration: 89 weeks

Awards:

Civic Trust Awards 2008 – “Mention”

A project to refurbish Charlton Farm, together with associated barns and out-buildings, and a new building for accommodation, to form a Children’s Hospice, providing 8 care bedrooms with support facilities for families and staff.

The site is set in a rural location in historic parkland. All the farm buildings are listed. The new build works comprised an RC structure built into the embankment, together with a sedum roof and a timber framed first storey.

The sympathetic use of local traditional building techniques was used throughout the project to help create a “tranquil” location for this hospice.

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