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  • Page Updated:
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Combe Down Primary School - 6 Classroom Extension

This 400-place Primary School is in the heart of the village on the southern outskirts of Bath.   Pupils were being taught in a variety of buildings ranging from an original Victorian stone building; a log cabin, a recently completed hall and several temporary classrooms dating from the 1960s and 1970s.

Site restrictions meant that three of the dilapidated temporary classrooms were replaced on the same site.  Therefore in summer 2005 pupils were decanted around the village into church and village halls and returned after 36 weeks to the new classrooms.

The new 520m² accommodation provides four general teaching classrooms and two larger reception classrooms with facilities for water play and an external covered play area, plus pupils and staff toilets and plant room.  The circulation has high levels of day lighting which is then introduced to the rear of the classrooms to minimise dependency on artificial lighting.

Heating is a mixture of under floor heating and radiators from a gas boiler.  Ventilation to all classrooms is through roof mounted passive units.

Traditional materials of natural bath stone random rubble walls with a natural slate roof help the building blend into the village vernacular.