I am delighted to have received such warm and positive feedback from one of my UWE RIBA 2020 students who I’ve been mentoring. Thank you so much for an invaluable experience gained through your mentoring. Your professional manner, the interesting and various site visits, the individuals we got the chance to meet and the opportunity to get an insight into the life of a busy architect made the experience truly unforgettable and valuable to us all. Receiving this hands on experience – although it was only two days – taught us much more about Grade II Listed buildings, conservation and […]
Yearly archives: 2020
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Four final year UWE students of Architecture & Planning are being mentored by Angel Architecture and were shown works in progress on the scaffolding at Lyme Regis seafront. The works have been carried out with listed building consent to replace sash windows with laminated glass and new lead flat roofs with cast iron rainwater goods by local joiners JWJ and Rowsell Roofing.
We have now lodged planning applications for The Old Post Office in Walditch, and scaffolding goes up early this month on The Alcove, at Marine Parade in Lyme Regis. Work on this property will consist of joinery repairs and repairs to the lead flat roofs. Work continues on Tudor House (above), which was the core of the former Tudor House Hotel, subsequently divided into four dwellings in 2002. The works include the reinstatement of the kitchen at ground floor level, and works to remove the unsympathetic alterations and materials, The basement has two 9 metre long beams which support the […]
Happy New Year from Angel Architecture! Scaffolding is coming down after the re-building of one chimney and reinstatement of another on this Grade II cottage. It has a new thatched combed wheat reed roof covering and new joinery throughout. The whole project will have taken less than a year from appointment to completion. The secret to this seamless process was the booking in of trades at the time of purchase, the clients put down a deposit with the thatcher, the joiner and the kitchen manufacturer to ensure a smooth transition from granting of consent in August to discharging planning conditions […]