Facilities

• Fully equipped classroom space
• Toilets and disabled toilet 
• Small kitchen facility
• Outside play field and picnic spot
• Covered outdoor area

Award winning design

The Moorland Discovery Centre opened in Spring 2007 and was designed by Allen Todd architects with a view to creating a unique environmentally sustainable building.

Sustainability features include:

• Extensive use of timber sourced from responsibly managed forests.
• Heating using a ground source heat pump taking heat from the ground outside.
• Thick ‘Thermafleece’ sheep’s wool insulation in the walls and roof. 
• Large south-facing windows reducing the need for electricity.
• Water comes from a nearby underground spring.
• Low flush toilets, sprinkler taps and an automatic leak detector to conserve water.

The building has won a number of architectural design awards including:

• The Wood Awards 2007 - second place in the community and public access section of the award
• The Green Apple Award for Environmental Best Practice 2007 
• The East Midlands award for architecture 2007

A 20 minute podcast (7.5mb) including interviews with people involved in the construction of the centre was produced as part of Architecture Week.

click here to listen to the podcast