Clock House Gardens Welwyn, Developing London Housing Development, Building
Clock House Gardens Welwyn, Hertfordshire
New Residential Building for Developing London, UK – design by Stockwool Architects
7 Oct 2017
Clock House Gardens in Welwyn
Location: Welwyn, Hertfordshire, England, UK
Design: Stockwool, Architects
Clock House Gardens Housing in Welwyn, Hertfordshire
Stockwool has completed this £7m housing scheme for Developing London on the edge of Welwyn in Hertfordshire.

Clock House Gardens transforms a derelict hotel site into an intimate community of 50 new homes within five two and three storey buildings that combine brickwork with timber cladding and together create a central shared courtyard.

The design solution responded to the site?s very particular context of the A1(M) motorway on one side and dense woodland on the other. The concept, a modern take on a walled village, was informed by the unique combination of urban and rural surroundings and sought to reduce noise and pollution from the motorway.
Deep reveals and projected windows create a richness in the elevations and this high-quality aesthetic makes the scheme a unique yet sensitive addition to the built fabric of Welwyn. Clock House Gardens is a totally flatted development, redressing a previous small home shortfall in Welwyn.

Key to its success is the careful layering of building form: the treatment responds to the harsher environment on the edge of the site with robust brickwork, where a soft...