Buttress Architects | Augusta House

Augusta House is a new boarding house for sixth form students, located at the heart of the Haberdashers Monmouth School for Girls estate. It sits next to the school’s existing boarding accommodation and creates a new pedestrian courtyard behind the historic, listed school buildings.
Inside Augusta House are 45 en-suite study bedrooms and two self-contained flats for tutors. For the design, Buttress took inspiration from the School’s main listed building, seen in features such as the dormers and gables; and in the complementary material choices, such as buff brick and both red and yellow sandstone.

Although the site is quite constrained, the building provides generous living accommodation for both pupils and staff. Each floor has a small kitchenette and there is a large and welcoming ground floor common room that opens out onto the courtyard.