Street view of Nobel House's curved corner, with copper-toned and grey cladding above a dark brick base, Redhill

Residential redevelopment

Queensway House · Nobel HouseSFS, cladding, render & partitionsRedhill · Surrey RH1

The team behind Dmitro Development delivered SFS, cladding, render and partition works for Hollybrook Residential Developments Ltd during the redevelopment of Queensway House as Nobel House, Redhill.

01 · Nobel House's curved corner on Queensway, seen from street level.

At a glance

Package: SFS, cladding, render & partitions
Client: Hollybrook Residential Developments Ltd
Location: Redhill · Surrey RH1
Scale: 126 apartments

The team behind Dmitro Development carried out SFS, cladding, render and partition works for developer Hollybrook Residential Developments Ltd at 4 Queensway, Redhill, as the site was rebuilt from the former Queensway House office building into Nobel House, a 126-apartment residential and retail development. The team's own site record describes a 34-week programme; a 2010 health and safety inspection confirms the company and 21 fixers, labourers and plasterers working on site that October.

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Nobel House's glazed stair tower beside orange cladding and glass balconies, viewed from the street in Redhill

The building's leading corner, glazed stair tower beside the orange rainscreen and glass balconies.

Photo: Capital PCC

Orange timber-effect cladding at the '4 Queensway' entrance to Nobel House, Redhill

The '4 Queensway' entrance, timber-effect cladding panels either side of the door.

The building envelope package

01SFS framing
02Rainscreen cladding
03Render
04Partitions

Nobel House's planted roof terrace beside pale grey and white cladding, with a gravel walkway and steel railings

Planting and a gravel walkway beside the pale-clad terrace elevation.

Nobel House's curved massing carries a mixed material palette across its elevations: pale grey cladding panels above, orange rainscreen cladding and glazed balconies below, with retail units and car parking at ground level.

Close view of blue and white cladding panels meeting window and balcony openings at Nobel House

Panel-to-window interface across one of the building's residential elevations.

Nobel House's blue-grey cladding panels beside a red-brick neighbouring building in Redhill

The building's rear elevation, beside a red-brick neighbouring property.

The roof terrace

Nobel House's landscaped roof terrace, shown here as context for the completed development rather than as documentation of the team's own cladding and render package.

Nobel House's landscaped roof terrace with young trees, overlooking the building's car park in Redhill — The landscaped roof terrace, overlooking residents' car parking below.

Roof terrace walkway at Nobel House, with raised planting beds and steel railings beside the residential elevation — A terrace walkway between planted beds and steel railings.

The site's history

A stalled office block, rebuilt as Nobel House.

The site was taken through planning under applications 05/01878/F, 06/00359/F and 07/00319/F, submitted from 2005 by Picasso Investments (Redhill) Ltd with Chart Plan (2004) Ltd as planning agent. Cube Real Estate sold the site to Hollybrook Homes in May 2007, after which Hollybrook Residential Developments Ltd took the scheme through to construction.

Building work stopped during the 2008 financial crisis and restarted in January 2010, following revisions to the scheme's Section 106 contribution programme. Nobel House topped out that June, and Reigate and Banstead Borough Council recorded completion in May 2011.

The building's name honours Alfred Nobel, whose explosives works operated in the Redhill area during the nineteenth century. Raven Housing Trust acquired 40 of the development's 126 apartments as affordable homes in 2011.

Balcony elevation and 'Queensway' entrance signage at Nobel House, Redhill, framed by tree branches

The residential entrance on Queensway, its balconies dressed in orange timber-effect panels.

Elevated view of Nobel House's corner block and shopfronts on Queensway, with surrounding streets and Redhill rooftops beyond

An elevated view of the corner block and shopfronts on Queensway.

Queensway House, rebuilt as Nobel House.

4 Queensway, Redhill, Surrey RH1 1TY

Developer: Hollybrook Residential Developments Ltd
Housing association: Raven Housing Trust
Construction restarted: January 2010
Building completed: May 2011

Photography: Capital PCC

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