Unsworth’s Yard was a redundant garage and workshop building with service yard located in the centre of Cartmel village. The existing workshop building was converted into an affordable house for local residents and the service yard has been developed as four commercial properties with No….
Windermere Marina Village is the Lake District’s premier inland marina and holiday resort, providing sheltered and safe location for clients to keep their boats all year round with a multitude of excellent facilities on site. There are many self catering cottages and luxury apartments on…
Located on China Street in the busy city centre of Lancaster, the former YMCA building had fallen into considerable disrepair prior to being purchased by a developer wishing to convert it into student accommodation. Dry rot was rife throughout the building and new interventions and…
Our client’s brief was to provide an aesthetically pleasing sun room extension to the upper ground floor level of their house. The resultant under build was able to be used as a garden store and a work room for the family. The extension was carefully…
There may well have been a church on the site in Norman or even Saxon times (the yew on the south side is thought to be around 1000 years old) but the current building was probably re-roofed in the mid 16th Century, with the flat…
An overall inspection of the building had revealed that limestone façade of the church building was in need of repair and consolidation to conserve its decorative features. Tiny fissures, inherent in the stones themselves, had been exploited by atmospheric weathering and had started to cause…
A remote Lakeland farmhouse, high on the fellside was in need of significant modernisation and repair before it could be occupied by its new owners. Retaining the character and charm of the cottage was essential to the design brief so intervention was kept to an…
A new house in the garden of an older property set in the lovely north Lancashire village of Silverdale. The brief was for a relatively small, compact family home with open plan, light, airy rooms and a functional arrangement of spaces. The building is constructed…
Originally a collection of workers’ cottages serving a nearby farm, Bowes Lodge became a farmstead in its own right with an attached barn and detached stables. The property had fallen into disrepair and desperately needed refurbishment when our clients purchased it with a view to…
Croft House Farm is a Grade II listed building in the centre of Buttermere. The cafe has been operating for a number of years and in 2011 was substantially refurbished. This second phase of development included an extension to the original building on the south west…
