The new building for Watermoor Primary will be built close to the new Beeches housing development being constructed on the eastern side of Cirencester.
Her first UK television role was in the acclaimed Granada production of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, where she played Violet Hunter in the 1985 episode entitled The Copper Beeches.
Glass walls flank an informal dining nook off the kitchen that looks out onto an ipe wood deck and a garden dotted with Japanese maples and columnar beeches.