Terrace Seat

The Terrace Seat is a renewed resting place in the C18 English Landscape Garden at Hestercombe, overlooking the Pear Pond.

The seat is made with steam bent oak in the shape of a seashell.  It starts the walk around the gardens, and can been seen from the Mausoleum at the end, echoing the beginning and end of a journey.

Rockwork Seat

A small seat in the C18 English Landscape Garden at Hestercombe, overlooking the valley. The naturally fractured Morte slate uprights follow the strata of the existing rock outcrop, to support horizontal polished limestone seat and back.

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.

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.

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.

Stover School Science Building

The science building is the second in a chain of new facilities for Stover School, that link the two main 18th century buildings on the site through the old kitchen garden, in a listed landscape.

The two wings of the building contain 4 classrooms and 4 laboratories, which were designed for multiple worktop layouts and flexibility.

Stover School Art Building

The grade 1 house and parkland were analysed and possibilities explored, to establish the feasibility of future development for Stover School.  The art building was the first housing the school’s art and media classrooms.

They demonstrate the potential for light, modern architecture to sit appropriately in an historic setting while making its own positive contribution.