A Sureclad ceramic granite ventilated façade system from Shackerley has proved an attractive cladding solution for Quattro Design Architects in Gloucester charged with delivering a new clinic in Cheltenham for registered cancer charity the Cobalt Appeal Fund.
State-of-the-art screening and diagnosis can now be provided at the Thirlestaine Breast Clinic, a facility purchased, extensively renovated, and extended, at a cost of £5.1 million by Cobalt, and leased for a nominal rent to Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The main part of the clinic is housed in an elegant Grade II listed three-storey Victorian villa, traditionally styled and constructed from natural Cotswold Stone. Shackerley’s ventilated façades provide the outer envelope for a new adjoining one-storey flat-roofed extension. While the extension’s contemporary styling is very different from the main building, Shackerley’s polished “travertine” ceramic granite panels, installed by ECL Contracts, have enabled the architects to sympathetically blend old and new by maintaining very similar colouring across all external elevations.
