Dining Room and Kitchen at Barfield Prep School

This building at Barfield Prep School, which took four months to complete, provides a stunning new dining hall. The use of full-height windows running from floor to ceiling brings the outside in. This new room offers panoramic views across nature and ample natural light, making lunchtimes much more pleasurable for the pupils and staff.

The building includes a commercial kitchen with cold and dry stores, a pot wash area, an office, toilet, plant room and an external veranda overlooking the Head Teacher’s lawn.The dining hall space will also host Barfield’s Upper School pupils for their after-school Prep sessions and Prep snacks, and their match teas after sports fixtures.

Andy Boyle, Barfield School’s Headmaster, said: “Since I joined Barfield School, the need for a dedicated dining hall has been something I have wanted to address. For over 50 years the sports hall doubled up as the place to eat, it was a noisy, chaotic, impractical space with high windows and no views. Thanks to TG Escapes we now have a beautifully designed, eco-friendly, functional building for everyone at the school to enjoy and benefit from. I cannot speak highly enough about how professional their team has been. Having had other developments done recently, we were expecting there to be significant disruption to our school day but they have managed to go quietly about their business without impacting on us at all.”

Why did you want to develop additional space?

As our school has almost doubled in size in the past 5 years, we have simply outgrown the current space we have and we were in real need of a purpose-built dining room.

What made TG Escapes stand out from other providers?

The attention to detail and personal contact has been excellent throughout. We have always dealt with the same people and this has allowed us to build relationships. In addition to having extremely high standards, they have delivered on timings and pretty much within budget – which is unheard of these days!

What are the biggest benefits you have noticed for the pupils and staff?

TG Escapes ensured that they did not impact on the daily routines here at school, which has been amazing. The new space looks brilliant and will revolutionise our dining experience – not to mention the incredible new kitchens which our catering team cannot wait to get into.

Kevin Sandhu, COO of the Prep Schools Trust says; “The final building is a fantastic addition to the estate and we are all really pleased with the outcome. In particular, I would like to give a special mention to Clive, who has gone above and beyond in terms of customer service. He’s a real asset. I’ll be happy to give recommendations to any other clients.”

Mayor of Farnham, Cllr Alan Earwalker opened the new facility on the 22nd April 2024.