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Ravenscourt Park Hospital Hammersmith Development News

31 July 2025

Architects: SPPARC

Location: Hammersmith, West London, England, UK.

Britain’s first major Modernist building in Hammersmith’s Ravenscourt Park secures new use after two decades of vacancy

• Award-winning architects SPPARC to nurse Grade II* listed hospital back to life following planning approval for residential-led scheme

• London’s former Ravenscourt Park Hospital will feature new housing, a 65-bed care home and community space that celebrate the long-vacant landmark’s historic features

• Popular film location recently featured in Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black (2024)

• SPPARC is highly experienced with Britain’s heritage architecture, including Olympia and the reimagining of the Saville Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue

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Ravenscourt Park Hospital Hammersmith Development, London

LONDON, 31 July 2025 – Award-winning London architecture studio SPPARC will rescue the former Ravenscourt Park Hospital in Hammersmith from nearly two decades of vacancy after developer TT Group secured planning approval for a residential-led redevelopment.

The Grade II* listed landmark, which appears on Historic England’s Heritage at Risk register, will be repurposed as 140 new homes, a 65-bed care home and space for public hire.

Praised by the architectural press as the first major “modern” building in the UK, the then-Royal Masonic Hospital was Europe’s largest independent acute hospital on its opening by King George V in 1933. Set up to provide low-cost treatment for Freemasons and their families, the 260-bed facility operated independently for over 60 years before financial pressures led to its closure in 1994. Re-opening as an NHS hospital in 2002, the newly renamed Ravenscourt Park Hospital would shut its doors for good just four years later.

Drawing on its expertise in reviving Britain’s heritage architecture, including the nearby world-famous Olympia exhibition centre, SPPARC’s designs celebrate the former hospital’s distinctive Art Deco style. Originally conceived by Scottish architect Thomas S. Tait, its four Grade II* listed red-brick hospital blocks – all of which will be brought back into use – are highly recognisable for their bold geometric design, minimal ornamentation and flat roofs, earning them RIBA’s prestigious 1933 Gold Medal award for Building of the Year.

The architectural landmark is well known for its appearances in film and TV productions as recently as last year, including Agatha Christie’s Poirot (1989 and 1991), The Queen (2006) and Back to Black (2024).

Under plans consented by Hammersmith and Fulham Council, SPPARC will turn the hospital’s former wards and treatment blocks into spacious new homes, from one-bed apartments to large family offerings, with dedicated amenity spaces including workspace, lounge areas and private gardens. Apartments will be arranged around the hospital’s existing layout, with the three blocks connected by their original elevated glass bridges. The plans repurpose distinctive semi-circular sun balconies for apartment use, which, made of welded steel, represented a significant innovation in structural engineering on opening and remain highly characteristic of the international style.

Meanwhile, the administrative building that served as the hospital’s entrance will house spaces available for hire for community uses. Its historic architectural features, including some of the inter-war period’s most lavish interiors and two original Greek-inspired statues that flank either side of the main entrance, will be refurbished and retained.

A later, poor-quality 1970s addition to the site will be replaced with a purpose-built specialist elderly care home and further residential units. Purposefully conceived to be read as part of the former hospital campus in order to complete the original masterplan vision, the new building has been sensitively designed to reflect the craftsmanship and quality of the former hospital blocks through its use of leitmotif brickwork and details. The 65 care home beds will relieve pressure on other local services while ensuring the site continues its historic use by the healthcare sector.

These new uses will be supported by a network of pedestrian routes through newly landscaped gardens, opening parts of the site up to the public for the first time. Stamford Brook and Ravenscourt Park Underground stations are within walking distance.

Trevor Morriss, Principal at SPPARC, said: “As one of Britain’s very first examples of the international modernist movement, this landmark of inter-war design is deserving of a new use that honours both its historic and architectural significance. With every aspect of the masterplan designed to respect and pay tribute to the original Art Deco design, today’s planning consent will ensure that the Royal Masonic Hospital can once again return to meaningful use that puts an end to nearly 20 years of vacancy.”

SPPARC’s experience with Britain’s heritage architecture includes the £1.3 billion regeneration of the historic Olympia exhibition centre in London’s Hammersmith into a wider cultural district. Set to open at in phases from the end of 2025, Olympia marks this year’s biggest European regeneration project. SPPARC was also behind the RIBA Award-winning Borough Yards, a new mixed-use development that revives a medieval street pattern linking London’s iconic Borough Market with the River Thames, as well as the reimagining of the Art Deco Saville Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue.

Duncan Brisbane, development director at TT Group, said: “The former Ravenscourt Park Hospital’s revival is long overdue, with planning approval ensuring this important building can finally be brought back into long-term use. Alongside a best-in-class project team, we now look forward to bringing the proposals to life, building on our track record for delivering much-needed housing on some of London’s highest-quality brownfield sites.”

The studio is acting on behalf of TT Group, one of the UK’s largest privately-owned property investors and developers with an £8 billion+ portfolio. The firm acquired the 3.87-acre site in 2022.

Project data:

Developer: TT Group (formerly Telereal Trillium)
Architect: SPPARC
Planning: Turley
Heritage: Turley
Energy & Sustainability: Cudd Bentley Consulting
Structural & Civil Engineering: Perega
Landscaping: Logika Group
Inclusive Design: Buro Happold
Quantity Surveyor: Ridge

SPPARC

SPPARC is an award-winning architecture and design studio recognised for the diversity and profile of its UK and international portfolio of completed and live projects. Recent and ongoing projects include the co-design of £1.3bn regeneration of Olympia London, the RIBA Award winning redevelopment of Borough Yards adjacent to the capital’s iconic Borough Market and the reimagining of the Grade II* Listed Royal Masonic Hospital in Ravenscourt Park, evidencing the studio’s expertise in creating modern architecture that successfully cohabits with heritage assets.

SPPARC’s consistent delivery of high-quality, complex projects that combine a unique application of traditional and novel materials with cutting-edge sustainability has won it the Planning Award for Design Excellence and the International MIPIM Award for Best Mixed-Use Scheme. SPPARC’s recent sustainability-led workplace project Southworks was named the World’s Smartest Building by the Futureproof Awards and is occupied by the Labour Party.

SPPARC is currently leading several complex masterplan projects across the UK including London’s first significant inner-city film studio complex, Camden Film Quarter, and the reimagining of the Saville Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue.

TT Group

TT Group, formerly Telereal Trillium, is one of the UK’s largest privately owned property investment and development firms.
In the last 25 years, the Group has completed some of the largest, most complex UK property deals. Its over £8 billion portfolio now comprises over 7,500 commercial properties spanning 65 million sq ft, with a development pipeline of more than 19,000 homes.

Operating in private capital, investment, strategic land, development and portfolio partnership, the company has an impressive track record and customer base of private companies, local authorities and central government departments.

TT Group, which includes leading strategic land master developer Lands Improvement, has won awards for its innovation, service delivery, and sustainability.
With an acquisition value of over £7 billion to date, working either as a sole investor or in joint venture with institutional capital partners, TT Group is family office-backed with long-term capital not fixed to investment horizons, allowing investment with agility within the real estate markets.
www.ttg.co.uk

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Location: Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, London, England, UK.