Client: Sobell House Hospice Charity

The Design and Construction of a twenty-bed hospice offers palliative care to patients with life-limiting illnesses, providing improved facilities and enhanced comfort for all patients. The facilities combined a new build extension with the partial demolition and refurbishment of the existing 1970s hospice.

The hospice achieved its aim to create 'a more domestic than clinical environment without diluting the level of care', with improved facilities for music and art therapy and bereavement support, increased comfort through improved space and lighting from glazed roofs and walkways and greater privacy with an increased number of single en-suite bedrooms.

The project was funded by the charity through the 'Raising the Roof for Sobell' appeal which was initially launched in March 2000. The hospice has been recognized as a World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Palliative Care and has also been awarded an 'Oxfordshire Preservation Trust Award for Architecture and Design'.