marshallandkendon.co.ukCrump Farm comprises a seventeenth century Grade II listed farmhouse and surrounding gardens and outbuildings, the latter in various states of repair.
The project addresses the repair and re-use of several of the barns, including the ruinous cow-shed, for a variety of uses including a cider press and Bed & Breakfast accommodation, the latter partly in a new building proposed forming a courtyard with the old cow-shed.
The Bank, Armada Way, Plymouth is located in the centre of town, Barclays moved out of and sold this building in 2010.
Our client bought it and converted the ground floor to shops and the upper floors to student accommodation. The whole process was completed in one year.
This 19th century rectory sits audaciously on the edge of the Cotswold escarpment with views to the Black Mountains in Wales.
The rector communicated with his brother there via a heliograph mounted on the roof. After a chequered history involving a major fire and hideous extensions, the current owner set to work in 1985 and restored the former glory.
The ‘millennium folly’ was added as a barn owl roost in 2000.
This unrealised project designed jointly with Burrell Foley Fischer is for a large mixed use development of flats and shops, the refurbishment of several listed houses and new premises for the charity Clubs for Young People.
The site is between the busy Kennington and Harleyford roads, its apex at the junction with the Vauxhall Cross gyratory where the prominent elliptical tower stands on a podium of mixed retail and residential uses. The road frontages are completed to enclose a sheltered open space at the heart of the site comprising private gardens and communal open space.
Our client fell in love with the location but not the house. Built in the 60’s on a steep valley side in Gloucestershire the house enjoyed glorious views over a generous garden, however it suffered from excessive solar gain in summer and lack of insulation in winter.
As part of other general alterations and improvements windows were reduced and the house was over-clad with insulation and timber; covering the concrete fake stone block-work to effect a dramatic character change.
The first project dates from 1975 when the almost roofless ruin of the mill was converted to a dwelling.
In 1990 this was extended by building onto the end where there had once been the miller’s house.
The Listed farmhouse dates from the 17th century and still has many qualities that are original, including a suicidal bifurcating staircase.
An addition was planned which gave a room with much needed space and light, together with a bedroom over and a stair to by-pass the original one.
This is a substantial new house using typical local materials and massing set on several levels on a steep south facing hillside above the Stroud Valley.
The site consists of several existing garden terraces with rubble retaining walls into which the new levels and walls of the new house are integrated.
The terraces of the garden and the lower levels of the house are connected by ramps and a lift for the owner’s wheelchair.
The site is a former oil depot located on the south side of Brockweir in the Wye Valley. The proposal is for 14 houses (of which 4 are affordable) arranged around a substantial stream which currently crosses the site in a concrete culvert. The oil depot buildings have been demolished and the first phase of the masterplan in the form of one large free-standing house at the entrance to the site has been sold. The remainder of the site, including the old stone built mill, is under consideration for Planning Permission.
The village is characterized by densely packed whitewashed rubble buildings with steep pantile roofs, the latter historically brought across the Severn and up the Wye by ship. There have been quite numerous unfortunate additions, mainly bungalows on heavily road-engineered sites nearby.
The proposal uses typical local materials, forms and layout with vehicular and pedestrian access sharing a gravel drive. The reinstated stream has considerable potential both as part of the landscape and as a source of power through water source heat pumps.
Adjacent to Egypt Mill and The Railway Hotel (see elsewhere) is what used to be a railway shunting yard.
The site sits alongside a river and is now enclosed by very mature trees; a development of 12 apartments was started but then halted by the recession.
