Around the site, new landscaping has removed existing car parking and reinstated the original 19th century garden layout with perimeter hedging and carriage drive. The project involved careful negotiations with the conservation authorities and local residents to provide a scheme that is sympathetic to the listed building and the Conservation Area in which it stands. The design involves a carefully detailed curved facade of bath stone to the new auditorium that sits at the same height as the adjacent villas

English Heritage selected the project as an exemplar scheme for their ‘Constructive Conservation in Practice’ published in 2008. As well as being used by the College, the new theatre also hosts a range of external arts events and is a key venue of the Cheltenham Festival.