This row of 19C commercial buildings in the Castle Street Conservation Area has occupied the site since the late 1800’s and would have once formed part of a bustling commercial district formed on mercantile and shipping links to the nearby port of Liverpool. Tightly packed worker dwellings which used to complete the row at the …
Category: Commercial
Prince Edward Street, Berkhamsted
This collection of historic buildings, built out of local red brick and covered with clay tile roofs, corners onto High Street, itself the main focus of the urban settlement running in a northwest to southeast direction and originally centred upon the Parish Church of St. Peter and the marketplace. The precise history of the site …
509-515 Lord Street, Southport
Internal refurbishment and restoration of the external envelope elements and glass canopy of a prominent Grade-2 listed corner building in Southport. The upper floors were converted into 9 new dwellings and the two retail units on the ground floor were entirely refurbished, with a new traditional hardwood timber shopfront installed. Read more
Parr Street, Liverpool
Regeneration of an urban site in the Rope Walks Conservation Area of Liverpool’s city centre. This mixed-use development will see the creation of 70 new dwellings with a mix of 1-, 2- and 3-bedroom apartments being provided, as well as an 8-units apart hotel and over 1,000m2 new commercial space at street level. The scheme …
Reigate Close, Halewood
While some projects are blessed by context-rich backstories, strong links to History or some flamboyant architectural agenda, this one is driven mainly by commercial reality and shares its leitmotif with many similar suburban schemes. The creation of housing for profit making. The ambition of a developer recycling a failed social club site in order …
Granite House, Liverpool
When the Victorians built the Granite Buildings, as offices and warehouses for the fruit trading merchants, they did it heroically, they did it monumentally, they gave it a solid granite facade. Some of the pieces of stone weight more than 800kg. The construction of the original building is nothing short of a feat of …