Townend Care Home
Townend House is a mid-19th Century mansion house in Symington, Ayrshire, which currently operates as an adult care home facility accommodating residents with both physical disabilities and mental health issues.
Our client’s brief was to extend the existing care home with a new wing to provide six additional resident bedrooms as well as shared common areas and amenities.
When we visited the site, we loved the setting of the existing building, which is surrounded by a series of gardens, woods and green spaces. Connecting to nature is vital in keeping us emotionally, psychologically and physically healthy, and this has driven our architectural response to the brief.
We have designed the new wing as a single-storey stone pavilion that features a sequence of internal spaces designed to carefully frame views of surrounding nature.
Our building also creates physical relationships to the landscape by incorporating external terraces overlooking the woodland to the west and a lanai enclosed by stone columns, providing a sheltered outdoor connection from the bedrooms to the east.
Location: Symington, Ayrshire
Client: Enhance Healthcare Limited
Area: 385sq.m
Status: Ongoing- Planning approved October 2022