# Ashfield House. Ashfield Healthcare HQ extension cladding. Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire LE65. > Cladding on shedkm's cantilevered Ashfield Healthcare HQ extension in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, with main contractor John Sisk & Son in 2011–12. > HTML version: https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/projects/ashfield-house-ashby-de-la-zouch/ The team behind Dmitro Development is credited with cladding on the 2011-12 extension to Ashfield Healthcare's headquarters, a cantilevered pavilion designed by shedkm above the company's original 2002 building in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire. ![Ashfield House's glazed stair core and the cantilevered white edge of the second-floor pavilion, photographed at dusk](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/ashfield-house-ashby-de-la-zouch/ashfield-house-ashby-de-la-zouch-glazed-stair-core-cantilevered-white-edge-fallback.jpg) 01 · The glazed stair core beneath the cantilevered pavilion, photographed at dusk. Office and training HQ Ashfield House's glazed stair core and the cantilevered edge of the second-floor pavilion, photographed at dusk after the 2011-12 extension. shedkm, project architect Alex Flint, designed the rooftop addition above Ashfield Healthcare's 2002 headquarters in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, for main contractor John Sisk & Son. The project's phase-specific record credits cladding on this extension to the team behind Dmitro Development. ## At a glance - **Package**: HQ extension cladding - **Location**: Ashby-de-la-Zouch · Leicestershire LE65 - **Client**: Ashfield Healthcare - **Main contractor**: John Sisk & Son - **Architect**: shedkm - **Extension completed**: January 2012 The team behind Dmitro Development is credited with cladding on the 2011-12 extension to Ashfield Healthcare's headquarters in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire. shedkm, project architect Alex Flint, designed the cantilevered rooftop pavilion above the company's 2002 original building for main contractor John Sisk & Son. [Part of: Cladding packages across the UK](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/facade-cladding/) ## 02 · A cantilevered pavilion added above the 2002 headquarters. The 2011-12 extension added a second-floor pavilion on an open steel support frame, continuing the original building's internal boulevard while introducing a distinct rooftop form. ![Ashfield House's entrance elevation after the extension, showing the curved stone-clad drum of the original 2002 building beside the glazed atrium stair and the cantilevered pavilion above](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/ashfield-house-ashby-de-la-zouch/ashfield-house-ashby-de-la-zouch-completed-whole-building-fallback.jpg) Photo: shedkm Ashfield House's entrance elevation after the 2011-12 extension: the original 2002 building's curved stone-clad drum on the left, the glazed atrium stair, and the cantilevered second-floor pavilion carried on an open steel V-column frame over the entrance. ## 03 · The first-floor walkway, cantilevered out beneath the pavilion above. ![Two people walking along a timber-decked balcony beneath the cantilevered white soffit of Ashfield House's extension, a curved stone-clad drum to the right](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/ashfield-house-ashby-de-la-zouch/ashfield-house-ashby-de-la-zouch-completed-extension-view-fallback.jpg) Photo: shedkm The extension's first-floor timber-decked walkway, cantilevered out beneath the second-floor pavilion above, with the original building's curved stone-clad drum to the right. ## 04 · The glazed elevation and external stair, seen through the birch trees. ![Ashfield House's glazed elevation and white-sided external stair, seen through bare birch trees](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/ashfield-house-ashby-de-la-zouch/ashfield-house-ashby-de-la-zouch-glazed-elevation-white-sided-external-stair-fallback.jpg) Photo: shedkm Ashfield House's glazed elevation and white-sided external stair, seen through birch trees planted along the building's edge. ## 05 · A training reception, restaurant and breakout space above the original building. The extension's second-floor pavilion added a training reception, an enlarged kitchen and restaurant, and open-plan breakout space, lit by circular rooflights set into its exposed steel roof structure. ![The café and restaurant space inside Ashfield House's rooftop pavilion, with steel-framed servery counters and floor-to-ceiling glazing](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/ashfield-house-ashby-de-la-zouch/ashfield-house-ashby-de-la-zouch-rooftop-addition-fallback.jpg) Photo: shedkm The rooftop pavilion's café and restaurant space, added in the 2011-12 extension, with steel-framed servery counters and floor-to-ceiling glazing looking out over the site. ## 06 · One of the pavilion's circular rooflights, set within its exposed steel roof structure. ![A circular rooflight in the exposed steel roof structure of Ashfield House's rooftop pavilion, seen from below](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/ashfield-house-ashby-de-la-zouch/ashfield-house-ashby-de-la-zouch-circular-rooflight-exposed-steel-roof-structure-fallback.jpg) Photo: Michael Jones Architects One of the circular rooflights set into the rooftop pavilion's exposed steel roof structure, bringing daylight into the open-plan space below. ## 07 · Cladding and timber screening on the pavilion's north-facing roof terrace. ![A white-clad wall meeting a timber slatted screen on the roof terrace of Ashfield House's rooftop pavilion](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/ashfield-house-ashby-de-la-zouch/ashfield-house-ashby-de-la-zouch-white-clad-wall-meeting-timber-slatted-fallback.jpg) Photo: shedkm Cladding and a timber slatted sunscreen on the rooftop pavilion's north-facing roof terrace, added as part of the 2011-12 extension. History ## Extending a 2002 landmark, without disturbing its language. Ashfield House was originally completed in 2002, a landmark headquarters for Ashfield Healthcare designed by shedkm and Michael Jones Architects: open-plan offices, a training centre and a café raised above parking on exposed V-shaped columns, built in white steel, glass, concrete and marble. The original building won a RIBA award and a Civic Trust award in 2003. Both awards belong to the 2002 building and its design team, not to the 2011-12 extension or to Dmitro. shedkm returned to design the extension itself, developed under planning references 08/01646/FULM, approved May 2009, and 10/00760/VCU, approved November 2010, continuing the original building's internal boulevard and architectural language into the new rooftop pavilion. The 2011-12 extension's phase-specific record credits cladding to the team behind Dmitro Development. - 2003 RIBA Award: Original 2002 building - 2003 Civic Trust Award: Original 2002 building ## 08 · The extension's cantilevered form seen from street level at dusk. ![Ashfield House's projecting upper floor and angled roof edge, seen across the street at dusk](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/ashfield-house-ashby-de-la-zouch/ashfield-house-ashby-de-la-zouch-ashfield-house-resolution-road-ashby-de-la-zouch-acm-cassette-dmitro-development-fallback.jpg) The completed 2011-12 extension photographed from street level at dusk, its lower-floor glazing lit from inside and the cantilevered roof pavilion projecting out above the surrounding trees. ## Ashfield House, cladding credited to the team. 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