CCA1244/1389 / Hotel Redevelopment – Caistor Hall, Norwich
CCA1316 / New Gatehouse Storage Facility at Plantation Garden
Community Trust Building / Norwich
Project Details
Cannon Clarke Architects were appointed by the Plantation Garden Preservation Trust to prepare a planning application for a new gatehouse building. The proposal is set to replace and expand an existing construction that is dilapidated and unserviceable.
The new gatehouse storage facility will store garden tools for the volunteer team to maintain the gardens on a weekly basis. The entrance area to Plantation Garden is the only access for the many visitors that arrive on foot daily throughout the year. The Trust were concerned that it did not meet the standard of entrance to an amazing and unique garden.
The existing non-descript storage facility detracts from the entrance area of the premises and will be demolished.
We replaced this with a new structure to match the adjoining gatehouse store facility which has a brick and flint façade. The two would form a continuous frontage with a complete new front elevation in brick and flint to reflect existing with doors to the store shed being reduced in size.
All of the roof will be in new coloured profile steel with rooflights incorporated. The tool facility would have a similar plan size to the existing but will adjoin the store facility by sharing the end gable. The site around the two buildings has been investigated several times to check for any potential settlement due to sink holes or tunnels.
In view of the history of difficulties in the adjoining property the construction of the new tool facility will have a brick and flint frontage, but the rear and south sides will be in timber framing with timber cladding. Neither of these elevations will be visible to visitors and the result will reduce the weight bearing needs of the foundation.
This gatehouse storage facility has not been constructed yet and the image below is at its current state.
