Two new potential commissions both in Dorset and yet neither have any planning history, one listed next to a scheduled monument, one unlisted and in Sydling St Nicholas Conservation Area. It is always fascinating to meet the owners who may have lived in their listed homes for their entire lives or just acquired a building which has been converted to residential use. There is never a lack of enquiries from clients whose needs are very specific, no two are the same as no two buildings have the same characteristics. Every single one provides a fascinating insight into the past.
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Another successful outcome, approval for the change of use of a carport to a home office, the internal alterations to a Grade II listed building in Dunkeswell Conservation Area, to create a larger bathroom where previously only a shower room existed and the lowering of a window on the first-floor landing. The clients have waited patiently since 28 May 2021 for a decision made more urgent by the arrival of their first child. It is difficult to believe that an application for listed building consent can take 5 months but this is average if we are lucky it will take […]
The farmhouse at Cathole is a fascinating new commission, an early C18 farmhouse with attached byre, it ceased to be a working farm in the 1970’s and since 1992 has become the home of our clients who have sensibly decided to look at options for the repair and conversion of three outbuildings to new uses. This is a typical Devon long house with a cross passage, previously with two staircases under a thatched roof, now slate. The hen house and dairy have been turned into utility spaces ancillary to the kitchen. The re-use of redundant farm buildings needs to consider […]
Dana Assinder, friend and accomplished landscape designer was commended this week in the RIBA Off Grid 2030 Competition featured in the RIBA Journal October 2021 with (Exeter based) Hilton Barnfield Architect for their Naturehaus project, so that reinforces the mass of talent here in Dorset & Devon. There are lots of us trying hard to share the varied and always interesting workload. I also think that collaboration with others is key to achieving better outcomes, bringing together lots of different skills complementing each other. Working with Niall Maxwell in Carmarthen has taught me a different approach and also just […]