Dinnington Manor Barn

A l906 listed barn, converted to open living areas and entrance court, with ground floor bedrooms.

All new partitions are differentiated by contrasting materials and colours to maintain the quality of the original spaces and surfaces.

Torre Abbey

Building repairs and redevelopment of Museum and Art Gallery for Torbay Council.

The whole site and Grade 1 listed building has been reorganised to enhance access, and incorporate major museum and gallery accommodation and gardens.  Works include a new cloister walk, masonry and render repairs, areas of roof renewal and conservation of monastic ruins.

The project had Heritage Lottery and Historic England funding and has been carried out in four phases, with a fifth anticipated.

Tyntesfield Visitor Facilty

The original 1883 estate model farm has been converted into a visitor facility for the Tyntesfield estate.

The main part of the complex was a large covered yard for the cattle, with an imposing geometrical roof structure.  This now holds the restaurant and entrance space in a way that retains the qualities and textures of the original farm building.  The visitor reception is a straw bale structure that has been hidden within an old barn.

Godolphin House

A project involving repair, adaptation and conversion of an important complex, comprising mansion, early gardens, farm, farm buildings and stables.

Carried out in several phases to establish visitor facilities, holiday accommodation, entrance and interpretation building, site access and infrastructure.

Nailsea Tithe Barn

Repair, alteration and extension of a tithe barn, to create a community building and council office.

The 15th century barn had been converted to school use and became dilapidated.  Original spaces have been retrieved and a new service extension added to provide fitting and practical facilities for the town.

Education Centre

The repair of a late 18c water mill and 19c barn at Hestercombe Gardens, and their conversion into an education centre.  Old equipment has been refitted in the mill, together with an exhibition of early energy production.  The barn has become a multi function education space.

The intention was to demonstrate how old buildings can be converted sensitively, and incorporate low energy modifications.  The roofs, walls and floors have been super insulated, and the complex is heated with a log batch burning boiler.

Tyntesfield Education Building

The project converts an 1880’s sawmill, steam engine house and battery room into an education centre for the Tyntesfield Estate.  It provides two learning spaces, an open air workshop, kitchen and toilets for practical courses and school visits.

The masonry shell has been repaired to retain the industrial sense of the place for the learning spaces.  New services are contained in an extension, hidden in the quarry, with a thin timber tail that is woven back through the old building.

Tewkesbury Tourist Information & Exhibition Centre

Repair, conversion and extension of a Tudor and C17th Grade II* listed timber frame building into a Tourist Information and Exhibition Centre, acting as a hub for other attractions in the town.

The scheme kept as much of the original fabric as possible, to which were added new elements.  The existing building houses the main functions, and a small extension at the rear has unlocked the complex circulation requirements, gaining disabled access throughout.

Nothe Fort

A comprehensive repair of the coastal fort at the mouth of Weymouth harbour, and its conversion into a Museum of Coastal Defences.

Involvement started with a condition survey, conservation plan and feasibility study for the development of the fort as a museum, through to completion of the building works on site.  This included the complete reconstruction of the earth ramparts, waterproofing of the gun deck and underground magazines, a new glass lift and shop.

Hestercombe Gardens Visitor Centre

New visitor centre for an 18th century landscape garden, and a 20th century garden by Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll.

It required the repair and extensive alterations of a stable complex to make ticket office facilities, cafe, shop, function and interpretation areas as well as external ramps, walks and landscaping to control and improve access and setting for the gardens.