Brentwood Preparatory School Building Photos, New Essex Education Property, Middleton Hall, Rooff
Brentwood Preparatory School Building
Education Building in Essex, south east England design by Cottrell & Vermeulen Architecture, UK
30 May 2022
2022 RIBA East Awards
Brentwood Preparatory School is one of 17 projects which received a 2022 RIBA East Award.
Design: Cottrell & Vermeulen Architecture

Photos by Anthony Coleman
Brentwood Preparatory School Building, Essex, UK
Jury Report
This project forms part of a 15-year relationship between Cottrell & Vermeulen Architecture and Brentwood School that has included the creation of a school reception, a sixth form centre (RIBA Award 2012) and a Learning Resource Centre. This latest project represents a shift in focus to the preparatory school, taking on a landscape of existing structures and spaces, (including the listed Middleton Hall) and adding two significant new buildings to the mix in support of the school?s expansion.
A new sheltering spine threads together and brings sense to the disparate collection of buildings, sometimes manifest as a canopy and ? beneath the new teaching block ? as an arcade. Adopting a classic 9-square villa plan, this new teaching building provides a reception to the preparatory school with 4 generous specialist teaching spaces for science, art and food technology on each of the upper two floors around a central hall ? each with supporting ancillary, circulation and storage spaces cleve...