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17 Kings Hill Avenue

Richard Partington Architects, Kent, 2000

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A two-storey office building with self-supporting brick walls, situated in a business park in Kent

Seen from the roadway, 17 Kings Hill Avenue has a clear and distinctive form and a visible front entrance. The design responds to the developer's request for a building that reflects the local vernacular - evident, at this scale, in barns and oast houses with their massive roofs and brick and weather boarded walls.

Four tenancies are possible on each floor and each wing is 15m wide, with natural cross ventilation through top-hung windows with high level vents for use in winter.

The main structure is an in-situ reinforced concrete frame supported on mass concrete pad foundations. The structure has a timber truss roof and Sussex Findon Yellow stock bricks have been chosen for the facade. The roof is natural slate (from Canada), the timber boarding is western red cedar and the windows are powder-coated high-performance aluminium units.