Waterhouse Manor
Waterhouse Manor Care Home provides 80 well-appointed bedrooms within the Hampton Gardens residential development, three miles to the south of the historic centre of Peterborough.
The home offers residential, dementia and respite care. As a brownfield site within an emerging environment, this offered opportunities for positive engagement with the local context.
The adjacent school, an existing drainage easement, the prospect of the nearby teardrop reservoir, and contemporary quality housing all provided important design generators at the concept stage.
| Type: | Care Home |
| Client: | Avery Healthcare |
| Local Authority: | Peterborough City Council |
| Scale: | 44,411 sq ft |
| Status: | Completed |
Waterhouse Manor Care Home is a leading example of how considered design, with collaboration between a close team of professional designers at an early stage, can deliver a building that is rational and cost-effective whilst also being beautiful, a pleasure to live and work in, and able to meet high standards of care. This is achieved through early visualisation of the spaces created, an efficient building plan, making the most of the site and orientation, and a careful attention to detail throughout.
