Lilycroft Primary School, West Yorkshire
Insulead fixed units® - Steelyte opening casements®
The Building
Lilycroft Primary School was constructed in 1872 as one of the first board schools. The Victorian, church-like Grade II Listed Building in Manningham, Bradford was created with a working bell tower and several rose windows. The building today is still used as a place for education and has always been maintained to represent its tradition.
The Brief
For many years the school had been struggling to replace the existing windows in the Grade II listed building. Having tried various window options which had not been approved nor appropriate the project manager we had worked with to replace the windows at the nearby Manningham Library came on board and recommended our services. The brief was to maintain the slim sightlines of the current windows to ensure the appearance of the building remained intact. The current single glazed windows offered poor thermal and sound insulation which was an ongoing issue within the school. The school needed a window solution that offered an increase in overall thermal performance but without compromising on the architecture of the building.
The Solution
Touchstone was able to offer a glazing solution that would not only protect the fabric of the historic school but would maintain the windows slim sightlines. Using Touchstone’s Insulead glazing system, meant that each window opening would consist of having only a 20mm sightline. Furthermore, the unique ability of Insulead allows any shaped opening to be double glazed. This was particularly important when it came to glazing the school’s lancet and quadrafoil windows. Touchstone was also able to manufacture a top hung safety window which ensured sufficient ventilation. to re-create the previous windows, each new double glazed unit would be stacked on top of each other.
The Response
The Lilycroft Primary School project allowed Touchstone to demonstrate its ability to glaze any window opening. By stacking the new double glazed units, it meant that the original architecture was maintained and the importance of having slim sightlines was followed.
