Aerial view of Mount Ephraim House at dusk, the historic red-brick house beside its extension with a pale standing-seam roof and roof terrace

Care home renovation & extension

Mount Ephraim HouseWarm, cold, green & standing-seam roofingRoyal Tunbridge Wells · Kent TN4

Dmitro Facades delivered a multi-system roofing package across Mount Ephraim House's renovation and extension, working warm, cold, green and standing-seam roofs for main contractor Frencon Construction.

01 · Mount Ephraim House at dusk, the historic house and its red-brick extension seen from above.

At a glance

Package
Multi-system roofing package
Location
Royal Tunbridge Wells · Kent TN4
Client
Frencon Construction Ltd
Building
Historic house renovation & care home extension
Completed
2023

Dmitro Facades delivered a multi-system roofing package for the renovation and extension of Mount Ephraim House, a historic house on Mount Ephraim in Royal Tunbridge Wells redeveloped as a dementia care home for Greensleeves Care. The package combined warm roofs with 140mm insulation, cold roofs and a green roof in the Protan J42 membrane family, a standing-seam metal roof, and terrace paving on pedestals, together with dormers, kitchen and link roofs, upstands, flashings, gutters, outlets and soil vent pipes, delivered for main contractor Frencon Construction Ltd.

Garden elevation of the Mount Ephraim House development, showing a curved brick bay with a roof terrace above a glazed link room

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The development's garden-facing elevation, its curved brick bay carrying a roof terrace above a glazed link room, in keeping with the roofing package's scope of terraces and link roofs across this side of the building as well as the main roofline.

The systems, one by one

  • 01Warm roofs, 140mm insulation
  • 02Cold roofs
  • 03Green roof
  • 04Protan J42 single-ply membrane
  • 05Standing-seam metal roof
  • 06Terrace paving on pedestals

History and recognition

A roof package recognised by the Royal Tunbridge Wells Civic Society.

Mount Ephraim House is a historic house on Mount Ephraim, extended from late 2016 into the dementia care home run today by Greensleeves Care. Dmitro Facades priced the roofing package in 2019 and worked across both the original house and its new wing, rebuilding the roof to meet current insulation and fire standards while keeping the building’s historic roofline.

The roofing package’s treatment of the historic structure was recognised with a Royal Tunbridge Wells Civic Society Award in 2022, ahead of the wider care home reopening in 2023 with more capacity than before.

On the standing-seam roof, Traditional Textures coil coating was specified in place of Colorcoat Urban.

  • 2022 Royal Tunbridge Wells Civic Society AwardRoof package
  • Care capacityIncreased by 50%
  • Reopened2023
Aerial view of Mount Ephraim House with the standing-seam roof and extension roofline highlighted against the dusk sky

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The same aerial view, with the completed roofline picked out to show the extent of the roofing package.

Mount Ephraim House, roofed by Dmitro.

Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent TN4

Metal roofing
A Class Metal Roofing Ltd
Developer
Goldfinch Ltd
Care operator
Greensleeves Care
Roof priced
2019