Salem Chapel

Repair and conversion of an 18th century chapel and school room to form village community accommodation.

Complex, conservative repair and conversion project under Heritage Lottery Fund and English Heritage grant aid.

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.

Lyscombe Chapel & Priest’s House

Lyscombe Chapel and Priest’s House had fallen into a ruinous state.  They were repaired with EH and DEFRA grants, and converted into a public space and overnight shelter for walkers on the Downland Way.

The chapel has been simply repaired with the traditional trades of lime mortar, masonry, green oak carpentry and thatched roofing.

Complex archaeological assessment and presentation of ruins, ancient church and landscape.

The Priest House walls were stabilised and the tops weathered, skillfully carried out by the contractor.

Farleigh Hungerford Castle & Chapel

Repairs for English Heritage.

Repair of roof structure and stone tiling, in association with medieval wall painting conservation and condensation control in the chapel..

Schemes of repair to ruinous walls and pavements.

St Margaret’s Almshouses

St.Margaret’s Almshouses had been burnt and left derelict since 1990.  The scheme repaired and converted the remaining shell back into social housing .

The original 1616 pattern of walls for 7 houses was re-established and re-interpreted for 4 homes.  New stairs and services are concentrated in the old chimneys positions that had been previously lost.

Brean Down Fort

Brean Down Fort was one of four Napoleonic/ Palmerston gun emplacements that protected the Severn estuary. The down itself is a SSS1 site.

The buildings became ruinous after WW2 and have been consolidated, repaired and made safe, with improved access and new interpretation panels describing the history, fauna and flora.

Inglesham Church

Inglesham is a medieval church.  It was an early SPAB case on which William Morris worked.

Thorough phases of repair have been achieved which were highly complex to retain the original fabric as found.  It involved wall painting conservation, stone tiled roofs, structural tying, conservation, masonry repairs, and ground drainage.  Repairs were kept to an absolute minimum.  They were intricate and gentle to leave the building as found.

WCA Warehouse

This was the first concrete-framed building in Bristol (1905) and had many problems associated with that construction.  An inventive plan allowed an economic conversion into social housing, with the complex servicing integrated around the existing elements of the handsome original building.

Detailed negotiations with English Heritage and Bristol City Council ensured a positive approach to the reuse of this Grade II listed building.

The Manor House

Repair and conversion of Grade 11 Manor House following fire damage.

The derelict Manor House was converted to create flats for the elderly using traditional construction techniques and subtle manipulation of the roof spaces.

Work was completed in two phases with direct labour and complicated funding issues.

Sandringham House

Bristol Churches acquired this derelict, bombed site in The Parade, Gloucester Road for housing.

The design follows the pattern of The Parade with its symmetrically designed Victorian mansions, to provide 18 flats for rent in a modern interpretation.