A diverse range of services for Bilton Grange School

Acanthus Clews have worked with Bilton Grange School near Rugby for over ten years during which time a number of projects have improved the school’s facilities.

The provision of new classrooms and changing rooms involved the demolition and replacement of a 1970s teaching block that was subsiding, and the filling of a gap between the original building and the new block.

Dormitory modernisation and refurbishment resulted in improved individual privacy and comfort for the children. The new facility was completed to a high standard of finish and included baths, showers, washbasins and lavatories plus a new lighting scheme.

Work to the historic A.W.N. Pugin library primarily involved cleaning and restoring the exquisite original panelling, doors and stonework. The walls were hung in hand painted wallpaper from an original Pugin design.

The magnificent oak staircase was also designed by Pugin but a hundred years’ use by schoolboys had rendered it unsafe. The whole seven ton oak staircase was supported on purpose-designed scaffolding to allow a detailed structural inspection and the intricate repair work.

A Montessori nursery was built in just sixteen weeks, from start to finish. The scheme used a prefabricated timber frame system and Acanthus Clews adopted a two-stage tender procedure with the contractors.

A maintenance plan prepared by Acanthus Clews guides on-going repair and renovation work to a standard consistent with a listed building.

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