This new 60-bed boarding house sits on a lawn beside a Victorian villa (also now a boarding house) and echoes its appearance. Buff coloured hung tile, white metal window surrounds, pergolas and hand-made bricks visually connect new and old buildings. The house is planned as three linked pavilions, each with rooms grouped around top-lit social spaces. A cross-laminated timber structure, high levels of insulation, heat pumps and heat recovery ventilation achieves near Passivhaus environmental standards.