Hanbury Hall

Hanbury Hall

By Howells

Client National Trust

Award RIBA West Midlands Award 2025

The award winner tells us, "The new pavilion restaurant for the National Trust’s Hanbury Hall harmoniously unites contemporary architecture with the Grade I listed Queen Anne building in a setting of the parterre gardens conceived by landscape architect George London in 1705.

Hanbury Hall carefully bridges the gap between old and new by introducing accessible entrances and routes; enhancing visitor experience; reinventing settings for food, retail, and education; and proudly showcasing a continuity of English craft skills and building traditions.

The seamlessly contemporary timber and tile clad pavilion - connected to the main house via the lightest touch of a glazed vestibule - reinforces and animates a historic service courtyard with new public facing café life."

Extract from the RIBA Awards Jury citation, "The new Courtyard Kitchen for the National Trust is a wonderful addition to the Grade I listed Hanbury Hall, an early 18th-century country-house retreat, garden and park in Worcestershire. The jury found this to be an extremely well-executed project, with a rich and sustainable material language that enlivens and rejuvenates the rear courtyard.

Through architects Howells’ sensitively judged design, the contextual new building becomes part of a family of outbuildings whose roof forms and materials unite old and new. The jury enjoyed glimpsed views of the new Courtyard Kitchen through gaps between buildings, over walls and through doorway openings."

Read the full citation from the RIBA Awards Jury on RIBA Journal

Contractor Croft Building and Conservation

Heritage architect Donald Insall Associates

Structural engineer Mann Williams

Environmental/M&E engineer Ramboll

Quantity surveyor/cost consultant IWSA

Landscape architect BEA Landscape Design

Gross internal area 247.4m²