Cattery, Battersea Dogs & Cats Home
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The cattery from the courtyard
Charles Knowles Download Original
Four-storey extension to the Kent kennel building that will house up to 150 cats
The building includes reception and waiting areas, meeting rooms and 83 cat pens with preparation areas and staff rooms. Existing clinic facilities in the Kent building have been refurbished as a part of the project, and extended into the new building.
The structure aims to provide a pleasant environment for its feline residents as they await new owners, with highly insulated curtain-walling and self cleaning windows specifically sized and located to make the most of natural light.
Solar thermal and photovoltaic panels provide up to half of the hot water required for the building and enough electricity to heat all of the lodgings. A ground source heating and cooling system supplies heat for the building in the winter and cooling in the summer.
Data
- Begun: Jul 2009
- Completed: Sep 2010
- Floor area: 1,070m2
- Sector: Healthcare
- Total cost: £4M
- Procurement: JCT with Quantities
- Address: 4 Battersea Park Road, Battersea, London, SW8 4AA, United Kingdom
Professional Team 
- Architect: Charles Knowles Design
- Project architects: Andrew Scott, Charles Knowles, Ross Sweetman
- Client: Battersea Dogs & Cats Home
- Structural engineer: Campbell Reith
- M&E consultant: Michael Popper Associates
- Main contractor: John Sisk and Son Ltd
- Quantity surveyor: Listers
