Whicheloe Macfarlane [also known as Whicheloe Macfarlane Partnership, Whicheloe Macfarlane Ltd., Whicheloe Macfarlane Medical Design Practice, and Whicheloe Macfarlane MDP] was founded in 1955 by architects Norman Whicheloe (1927-2002) and Stephen Macfarlane, both graduates of the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. The practice had offices in Bristol and Exeter, England and specialised in healthcare architecture. . Whicheloe Macfarlane was awarded the Eternit Prix International d'Architecture in 1980. In 2002 they merged with Building Design Partnership.
Architectural projects included the Bristol Hospital for Sick Children (2002), the Acute Assessment and Rehabilitation Unit, Stroud General Hospital in Stoud, Gloucestershire (c.1994) and Great Western Hospital in Swindon. Other projects by the firm included the conversion of a redundant chapel into office accommodation and construction of adjacent new warehouse for the South West Regional Health Authority (1982) and the Biodrier Recycling Plant, Europe's largest sewage sludge dryer at Avonmouth in Avon (1992)