Aisher House Sevenoaks School, Kent Education Building, Best New Southern English Architecture Project
Aisher House, Sevenoaks School
4 May 2022
2022 RIBA South East Award winners announced
Seven projects have been awarded Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) South East Awards.
Aisher House, Sevenoaks School, Kent, south east England, UK
Design: Tim Ronalds Architects

photograph : Tim Ronalds Architects
Aisher House at Sevenoaks School
Jury Report
The new boarding house for boys at Sevenoaks School combines a skilful response to a complex brief with a confident piece of placemaking.
The site for the new building is the front lawn of Park Grange, a listed Victorian villa at the southern end of Sevenoaks High Street. The architects have demonstrated a sophisticated and intuitive understanding of this setting. The new building is split into three pavilions, echoing the form of the listed villa, and placed so as to complement it in scale. To echo the Victorian villa?s materials without resorting to pastiche, bespoke ceramic tiles were developed for the new building?s fa̤ade. These are an unusual T-shape to allow a hit-and-miss appearance Рgiving a cadence of light and shade similar to that of the villa?s stone walls.
photograph : David Merewether
A boarding house such as this has very particular requirements, catering for boys across a range of ages, and requiring cooking, laundry and other ?home-from-home? facilities in addition to bedrooms and bathrooms...