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Railway Hotel, Gloucestershire

Railway Hotel, Gloucestershire

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The Grade II listed Railway Hotel predates the railway which was built in 1867 and although much altered internally and with a clumsy stair tower added to the rear in the 1970’s, it retains two fine stone elevations.

Marshall & Kendon applied for and obtained Planning and Listed Building Consent to bring the existing basement into use and to convert the upper floors into flats.

The rear extension was refurbished and replaced with a new one and the existing building shell.

Was thoroughly repaired, its stone parapets and chimney stacks reinstated and a new “hanging” stone stair installed in the old (vacant) stairwell.

Four floors provide two marionettes and two flats. To the rear, a new “curtilage building” provides two further apartments and covered parking. In the landscaped communal garden bordering the river, a timber clad building houses a bio mass boiler providing heating for the whole project.

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Low Wood House, Birmingham

Low Wood House, Birmingham

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Low Wood is a large Grade II listed house of 1910 in a predominantly Edwardian area of Harborne. Designed by the Arts and Crafts architect E F Reynolds, it has fine well-preserved interiors and a matching circular observatory in the garden. The garden, now substantially reduced in extent with 1990s houses built on the rest, is uninspiring and a unworthy setting for the house.

A series of garden works includes new gates, a new paved terrace, garden steps, sunken pool, a rill and pergola set within the existing levels and form of the garden and its mature trees.

The first phase of the garden works comprising of a stone terrace, planters and a pool is now complete Bricks from Furness and stone from Rand and Asquith closely match the existing house and with the planting maturing, the new works provide a more worthy step from house to garden. It is to be hoped that the restoration of the observatory can begin before the weather causes more serious damage to the fabric.

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Burwalls Lodge, Bristol

Burwalls Lodge, Bristol

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Burwalls Lodge stands at the south edge of the gardens of Grade II listed Burwalls House, a Victorian red brick Jacobethan mansion built in 1872 at the west end of Clifton Suspension Bridge. The house itself is being converted to flats and the stable buildings adapted and joined by a clutch of large new “executive houses” in a gated community which also includes the distinctive but delightful Lodge.

Consent has been granted to restore and enlarge the Lodge, the major addition being a semi- subterranean extension built under the existing house and into the hillside and forming a new outdoor terrace overlooking the garden and the woodlands falling down to the Avon gorge.

Work is due to start shortly.