As an architect, I'm passionate about old buildings and helping their owners keep them fit for modern living and modern use. I know what it's like for small congregations to try to keep up with maintaining their church buildings without forgetting their mission - and I love to be involved with them.
I'm also concerned about green issues and one of my new projects is the design and build of a small private chapel in straw-bale construction with a reciprocal framed roof. I've also got a few projects and potential projects in London - all small-scale extensions for homeowners on a budget. Setting up on my own at the age when many people retire is a new adventure.
I'm also concerned about green issues and one of my new projects is the design and build of a small private chapel in straw-bale construction with a reciprocal framed roof. I've also got a few projects and potential projects in London - all small-scale extensions for homeowners on a budget. Setting up on my own at the age when many people retire is a new adventure.
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The owners of this terrace house love living in the conservation area, but with a growing family needed more space. The back yard was very small, but there were outbuildings - a shed and a coal store - that gave scope for an extension on a similar footprint. The floor tiles in the extension match the new tiles in the yard, which give a unified sense of space.
St Mary's church is a Grade 1 listed building. The timber post on the tower roof was very weathered and water was tracking down into the roof structure. The parishioners were granted 80% of the project cost by the Listed Places of Worship Roof Repair Fund, and had a generous grant from the Shropshire Historic Churches Trust.
You can see the tall spire of this splendid Victorian church from the Chester to Shrewsbury train. It was designed by the Shrewsbury architect Samuel Pountney Smith and built in 1859 The Shropshire earthquake in 1990 caused some damage to the steeple which was repaired by roped access. The church is listed Grade 2 by Historic England.
The client had bought a house with an existing extension which did not meet current building standards. However, when we applied for a certificate of lawful development in order to demolish and rebuild the extension, we found that it had never had permission in the first place. So we applied for permission to extend a little further into the garden, and to reorder the interior.
This house in north Shropshire had a sun-room extension at the side. The sun-room was in need of repair, and the clients decided to demolish it and build a two-storey side extension on a slightly enlarged footprint. We drew up some options and then applied for planning permission and Building Control Plan Check for their chosen scheme.
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