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Teddington Cricket Club in South West London
1 Dec 2020
Teddington Cricket Club
Design: Reed Watts Architects
Location: St James? Court Hotel, Victoria, southwest London, UK

Reed Watts Architects have completed a new pavilion in Bushy Park, Richmond Upon Thames for Teddington Cricket Club. The 600 sqm structure was built in just seven months in the Grade 1 listed park and provides a new home for the club as well as sport and leisure facilities for the local community.

A highly successful amateur cricket team, Teddington Cricket Club has been based on the site in Bushy Park since 1863. Their previous clubhouse was formed from two military huts which dated back to the Second World War when Bushy Park was used as a headquarters from which Operation Overlord (D-Day) was planned. The club was in urgent need for new facilities to replace the aging timber structure and poorly organised accommodation of their existing building.
Reed Watts?s designs re-imagine the typical sports pavilion typology with a building that responds positively to the park setting, whilst referencing the form of the previous military huts. The new pavilion includes four new changing rooms, two large social spaces and a roof terrace with the ?L? shaped plan providing views over both of the team?s pitches and across the park, whilst shielding the back of house areas and the practise nets from the public.

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