Church Road, Ashford
Middlesex
4 residential blocks. Axter wilotekt hot melt roof system, insulation, pebble and paving slab roof finishes to roofs and terraces. Marley plain clay tile and eternit slate pitched roofs and associated fittings, flashings, etc. Supply and install smoke vents and AOVs. Aluminium cappings to parapets.
Residential & mixed-use development in the heart of Ashford, Middlesex. The development consists of 347 Apartments, 10nr houses and 442m2 of commercial space.
The proposal was for a new town square offering a focal point for the high street and the first of three new spaces for the town of Ashford. Four-storey buildings frame the square to create a delightful, sheltered, south facing space for the community to host outdoor events as well as the surrounding new cafés and purpose-built Brooklands College Hairdressing Academy housed in the ground floors. The two buildings which ‘bookend’ the square address the street with strong gable ends; the language of the pitched roofs providing an echo of Ashford’s pre-WWII urban fabric.
Apartment buildings provide a backdrop to the boulevard and other public routes through the site. Towards the centre of the site, ‘The Courts’ apartment block defines a grand south facing entrance courtyard and a north facing raised belvedere garden for residents, overlooking the large open space. Towards the northern perimeter, semi-detached houses and three-storey apartment buildings are arranged in pairs and are sympathetic in scale and grain to the neighbouring family houses. Feature dormer windows and ‘cat slide’ gables provide both attractive design features and an intermediary scale between the houses and apartment buildings.