The Old Rectory, Pool House anf Gym, Dorchester Listed Building Development, English Architecture Photos
The Old Rectory Pool House in Dorchester
11 Feb 2022
Design: Adam Knibb Architects
Location: Dorset, south west England, UK

The Old Rectory Pool House, England
Adam Knibb Architects were appointed to design a proposal for a new pool house and gym at the Old Rectory site in Puncknowle, Dorchester. The site is an existing tennis court within the grounds of the Old Rectory, a grade II listed building. The Old Rectory site also consists of a grade II listed dovecot adjacent to the main house and a seperate cottage/outbuilding. The site lies within well established, landscaped grounds with a number of mature hedges and trees surrounding the site and falls within the Puncknowle Conservation Area.
With the site?s existing built form and landscape features in mind, every effort was made to ensure the proposed scheme ties in with its surrounding context and sits comfortably within the landscape. This has been achieved through materiality, form and siting of the buildings.

The proposed buildings have been arranged in an ?L-shaped? format, with the larger building to the north of the site presenting itself as a contemporary interpretation of the more traditional pitched roof buildings on site. A standing seam pitched zinc roof with glazed gable ends ensures the buildings ties in to the existing built fabric on site through form and materiality, whilst also establishing its own c...