ESHA Architects Housing Refurbishment and Housing for the Elderly

Single Houses and Small Scale Conversions & Extensions

We regularly provide a service for clients on single houses and small scale conversions and extensions. This service can be simply a feasibility study, a design suitable for planning application, or a full design including working drawings and site inspection. Most of our new houses have been in particularly sensitive locations, like the house in Caerleon amongst Roman remains and on a densely wooded site in Guildford.

Index

Single Houses

High Street, Caerleon. A new house in the form of a long stone barn, built on a site with Roman archaeology within the Conservation Area in the heart of Caerleon, South Wales.

Lookout, Weymouth. A new timber house within the curtilage of a Grade II listed observation tower overlooking Chesil Beach.

Bridge House, Kersey. A new private house within the village envelope of Kersey in Suffolk.

Private House, Guildford. A substantial family house in the Surrey vernacular.

Small Scale

Dove Street, Kingsdown. A small infill scheme of ‘microflats’ within the Georgian area of the Kingsdown Conservation Area.

Luccombe, Somerset. Three houses for the elderly in this National Trust village for the West Somerset Rural Housing Association. Won the National Award for ‘Buildings in the Countryside’ in 1992 and a Civic Trust Commendation.

Castle Howard Estate. Six housing layouts within the villages of Slingsby, Terrington and Welburn.

Northeaze, Tetbury. Four houses on an infill site in the Cotwolds. The project incorporates a listed barn.

Tourist Information Centre, Chepstow. A new TIC building together with the reordering of the car park at Chepstow Castle. Won a Civic Trust Commendation.

Gloucester Street, Wotton-under-Edge. Thirteen houses near the town centre on the site of a former garage for Edward Ware Homes. Won a Stroud District Council Design Award 2005 and a RIBA Housing Award Commendation 2006.

Conversion & Extension

Health Centre, Bishopston. The conversion of a listed Edwardian swimming pool into a Health Centre, including the insertion of an intermediate floor.

The Glove Factory, Yeovil. A new mixed-use urban block incorporating a listed industrial building and providing 27 houses and 10 flats.

General Office, Ebbw Vale. The refurbishment and extension of the Grade 2* General Office at the heart of the Ebbw Vale Masterplan Area.

Merchants’ Almshouse. The reinstatement of the wing lost to bombing during World War 2.

Town Hall Site, Tiverton. Competition winning design including 58 new and converted homes, cafe/gallery & amphitheatre on this unique steeply sloping site between the listed town hall and the river Exe.

St. Andrew Street, Tiverton. The conversion of 12 houses, including two listed buildings in a conservation area in the heart of Tiverton. (Part of our competition winning design for the Town Hall Site).

Middle Farm, Poundbury. The conversion and extension of an existing farm grouping to provide new facilities for a software company.

Cotshill Gardens, Chipping Norton. Conversion of a grade II listed workhouse into 22 houses for Regalian Properties.

General Office, Ebbw Vale. The refurbishment and extension of the Edwardian Grade 2* General Office, originally the HQ of the steelworks, at the heart of the Ebbw Vale Masterplan Area.