2011 12 10 Workshops finished

The Holy Cross workshops are finally finished. The building is an L-shaped storage unit for the Convent's cars, tractors and maintenace equipemnt. The south range conatins a workshop for their maintenance staff and a mess room for their gardeners and other labourers. The building also contains storage areas for produce, fuel and garen furniture.

The building is an economical structure built in cavity blockwork with Canadian larch cladding and framing. The windows and doors are painted and stained Douglas fir. The building has deep eaves for swifts and housemartins, and dovecotes at each end are for bird access and the roofs have special bat access tiles on all pitches.

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