CIOB’s Northampton Hub held two site visits recently, one to the historic Lord Leycester Hospital in Warwick and another to the brand-new Kenilworth School and Sixth Form.
The Grade I-listed Lord Leycester Hospital is an outstanding, internationally important collection of buildings, constructed between the 13th and the 17th centuries, providing a home for Warwick’s medieval guilds.
The site consists of two highly decorated 15th century timber-framed guildhalls and chapel, as well as further ranges of medieval buildings around a courtyard.
The site tour, by specialist heritage contractor Messenger BCR, provided information on the works to transform it into a modern visitor attraction and illustrated the traditional craftsmanship used.
In Kenilworth, Morgan Sindall offered insight into the construction of a new-build secondary school and sixth form on existing farmland. The new site will provide for 2,200 pupils with extensive sports facilities.
