This building forms the centrepiece in a Heritage Lottery Funded scheme to restore Avenham and Miller Parks. Edward Milner, the noted English landscape gardener, originally designed the parks in the 1860’s and these are thought to be the best surviving examples of his work today. The building comprises a classroom, café, toilet facilities, ranger’s base and small intimate performance space to the outside. The building is set out in a curved configuration. To the north it encloses an external performance area, to the south the building spills out onto an external café terrace overlooking the River Ribble. The building is raised on a new sculptural earthform that protects it from floodwater