
Millfield School, Library Building Refurbishment and Extension
Key Facts
Client
Millfield School
Location
Butleigh Road, Street, Somerset
Internal Floor Area
939m2
A new face to Millfield’s Library: creating a light filled and vibrant study centre at the heart of the campus.
Project Info
Page\Park have been working with Millfield school since early 2019 on the refurbishment and extension of the existing Library Building.
The library project aims to enhance the north west corner of the campus and deliver a building that connects to the external landscape at Millfield. The original building designed by Jeremy and Caroline Gould is a fine modern building showing distinct Scandinavian influences. Page \ Park’s intervention opens-up the southern side of the building and is driven by a need to improve social learning space on the campus. The vision for the project is to transform the library into a vibrant study centre, providing exemplary teaching and learning spaces and signalling its importance within the campus.
The main body of the existing library will be retained and refurbished with a two-storey extension on the south east corner giving a new entrance, social study area and 6th form centre. The form and character of the extension is designed to harmonise with the existing building, while adding further clarity and enclosure to the external spaces.
The extension and refurbishment of the existing library building will create space for a new reception space; dedicated careers space; media classrooms/studio; Mac computer suite; a new vertical circulation core; and combined 6th form centre and café with associated staff and administrative accommodation.


Testimonial
“Millfield seeks to put learning at the heart of everything that we do, as students or as staff. The Millfield Library will be the embodiment of that vision: it will be a place where all feel welcome and which gives every individual a place to discover and to learn. It will be the glue of life and learning, connecting together all subjects and the various stages of life through 6th form, careers and teacher training.”
Gavin Horgan Headmaster at Millfield School