# Liberham Lodge, formerly Gracewell of Bookham. Aluminium composite rainscreen. Little Bookham, Surrey KT23. > Design, supply and installation of aluminium composite rainscreen cladding for Metnor Construction at Liberham Lodge care home, Little Bookham, 2016. > HTML version: https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/projects/liberham-lodge-little-bookham/ The team behind Dmitro Development designed, supplied and installed the aluminium composite rainscreen on Liberham Lodge, a 70-bed care home in Little Bookham, for main contractor Metnor Construction in 2016. ![Liberham Lodge care home in Little Bookham, with beige-grey aluminium panels framing windows and bays between white render and brick, seen across the garden](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/liberham-lodge-little-bookham/liberham-lodge-little-bookham-bookham-fallback.jpg) 01 · Liberham Lodge from its garden: beige-grey panels between white render and buff brick. Care home Liberham Lodge care home on Rectory Lane, Little Bookham, seen across its garden. Pre-finished beige-grey aluminium composite panels frame the windows, the dormer cheeks and the stacked glazed lounges, set between white render and buff brick under a slate roof. The team behind Dmitro Development designed, supplied and installed the aluminium composite rainscreen for main contractor Metnor Construction in 2016. ## At a glance - **Package**: Aluminium composite rainscreen: design, supply and installation - **Main contractor**: Metnor Construction - **Location**: Rectory Lane, Little Bookham · Surrey KT23 4DY - **Architect**: PRP Architects - **On site**: Six weeks, 2016 - **Building**: 70-bed care home and retained 1840s house [Part of: Cladding packages across the South East](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/facade-cladding/) ## 02 · The lounge bay, wrapped in beige-grey panels. Held with colour-coded fixings. ![The central garden bay of Liberham Lodge, with glazed lounges on two floors, a beige-grey panel band beneath the upper glazing and panelled dormers in the slate roof either side](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/liberham-lodge-little-bookham/liberham-lodge-little-bookham-central-garden-bay-glazed-lounges-floors-fallback.jpg) The central garden bay at Liberham Lodge: glazed lounges on two floors, a beige-grey aluminium composite panel band beneath the first-floor glazing, panelled dormer cheeks in the slate roof and panels beside each window, between white render and buff brick. ## What the package covered - Package design and site survey - Supporting metalwork and rails - Vapour-control interfaces - Beige-grey aluminium composite panels - Reveal returns and flashings ![Beige-grey aluminium composite panels around glazed ground-floor garden doors at Liberham Lodge, with brick, white render and more panel-framed windows along the paved terrace](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/liberham-lodge-little-bookham/liberham-lodge-little-bookham-beige-grey-aluminium-composite-panels-glazed-fallback.jpg) 03 · Large-format panels around the ground-floor garden doors. Close view of the beige-grey aluminium composite panels around a set of ground-floor garden doors at Liberham Lodge, the panel joints lining through with the window frames above, and the run of brick, white render and panel-framed windows continuing along the paved terrace. How the package ran ## An approved sample, three inspections, four elevations. Before work started, a reference panel sample was approved and the team agreed with Metnor Construction how the cladding would meet the roof, windows, masonry and scaffold. The work was then inspected at three stages: after the metalwork, after the vapour-control layer and on the finished cladding. Cladding started on site on 15 August 2016 and moved round the building south, west, north, then east. The wall build-up was designed to a U-value of 0.23 W/m²K. The package was later extended to add flashings at the fascia, gutters and cills, and where the cladding meets brick and render. ## 04 · Garden seating below the panel-framed lounges. ![Wooden garden tables and green parasols on the lawn beside a paved terrace, below glazed lounges with a beige-grey panel band and louvred shutters](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/liberham-lodge-little-bookham/liberham-lodge-little-bookham-wooden-garden-tables-green-parasols-lawn-fallback.jpg) Garden tables on the lawn beside the paved terrace at Liberham Lodge, below the stacked glazed lounges with their beige-grey aluminium panel band and louvred shutters, with lavender beds and mature trees beyond. ## 05 · The lavender walk behind the home. ![Two people and a small white dog walking a path between box hedging and lavender, a rendered wing with a panel-framed corner window behind](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/liberham-lodge-little-bookham/liberham-lodge-little-bookham-people-small-white-dog-walking-path-fallback.jpg) Two people and a small dog on the path between box hedging and lavender in Liberham Lodge's gardens, with garden seating and a panel-framed corner window of the new wing behind. ## 06 · The full garden elevation, seen across the lawn. ![Liberham Lodge's long garden elevation across a striped lawn, with gabled end wings, a central glazed bay and panel-framed windows and dormers between white render and brick](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/liberham-lodge-little-bookham/liberham-lodge-little-bookham-long-garden-elevation-striped-lawn-gabled-fallback.jpg) Gabled end wings, the glazed lounges at the centre and a run of panel-framed windows and dormers between them, along the whole garden front. Liberham Lodge's long garden elevation from across the lawn: gabled end wings, a central glazed bay and a run of panel-framed windows and dormers between white render and buff brick, under a slate roof. History ## An 1840s house kept, and a care home built behind it. Liberham Lodge stands on the former Preston Cross Hotel and Country Club site on Rectory Lane, in the Bookham Conservation Area and the Metropolitan Green Belt. The scheme kept the main elevations of a house dating from about 1842, with Regency Italianate, Edwardian and mock-Tudor elements, removed the later hotel additions and converted a flint outbuilding. PRP Architects designed the new 2.5- and three-storey extension with a basement: 70 en-suite rooms in three resident groups of 25, 25 and 20, plus five two-bedroom close-care units. Hamberley Development developed it for Welltower and Metnor Construction built it. Care UK runs the home today as Liberham Lodge. - Planning approved: 12 February 2015 - Opened: July 2017 - BREEAM (design stage): Very Good, 55.5% ## The retained house and the new wing Mature trees were kept, the old hotel car park was cut back, and new gardens, paths and boundary planting were laid out around the building. ![Aerial view of the retained rendered house with stone quoins, the entrance court and car park, and the new wing behind it among trees and fields](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/liberham-lodge-little-bookham/liberham-lodge-little-bookham-aerial-retained-rendered-house-stone-quoins-fallback.jpg) 07 · The 1840s house and entrance court from above, with the new wing behind. Aerial view of Liberham Lodge from the entrance side: the retained house with its stone quoins at the front, the single-storey entrance range, the new extension rising behind and the converted outbuilding beside the car park. ![Aerial view over terraced lawns to the retained house and the long new extension with panel-framed bays and dormers](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/liberham-lodge-little-bookham/liberham-lodge-little-bookham-aerial-terraced-lawns-retained-house-long-fallback.jpg) 08 · The garden side from above, where the new extension runs out from the house. Aerial view across Liberham Lodge's gardens: the retained house in the foreground with a panel-framed glazed corner bay, and the new three-storey extension running behind it with its panel-framed bays and dormers facing the terraced lawns. ![The entrance court of Liberham Lodge, with the rendered retained house, the single-storey entrance range and the new wing to the right](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/liberham-lodge-little-bookham/liberham-lodge-little-bookham-entrance-court-rendered-retained-house-single-fallback.jpg) 09 · The entrance range, joining old house and new build. Liberham Lodge's entrance court: the rendered retained house with stone quoins and sash windows on the left, the single-storey entrance range across the middle and the new brick and panel-framed wing to the right. ## Liberham Lodge, clad by the team. 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