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Summer Hill in the snow

DDR — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:36:48 +0000

Project for a new house and the refurbishment of a Georgian house at Summer Hill, Spark Bridge near Ulverston. The picture was taken in January 2010 immediately prior to the Phase ll refurbishment of historic building.

Summer Hill slide-show

DDR — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 15:19:13 +0000

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

Summer Hill, Spark Bridge, Cumbria with Morecambe Bay in the distance. Phase 1 complete. Pictures taken in changing light, November 2007.

Summer Hill Phase 2

DDR — Wed, 23 May 2007 15:03:19 +0000

Current project: An initial scheme for apartments in a listed Georgian house near Ulverston. The scheme aims to retain and enhance the grand architectural features of the interior. Phase 1.

Gate House

DDR — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 09:39:57 +0000

This is a small but, we hope, perfectly formed addition to a Victorian gate lodge in the countryside north of Preston. It is of two storeys and exploits the change in level between the entrance drive and the garden.

Summer Hill Detail

DDR — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 15:21:04 +0000

Roughcast and copper at Summer Hill.

Summer Hill, Phase 1

DDR — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 15:06:10 +0000

Phase 1 of the development at Summer Hill is now complete. This consists of a new house for the owners which incorporates some elements of the historic building. The picture shows the building from the west with the new copper-clad extension providing a first floor living space. Phase 2 will involve the conversion of the original Georgian house, the completion of exterior painting to unify the building colour and the finishing of external works.

The picture below shows the site before construction of the new buildings.

New Deanery

DDR — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 12:05:06 +0000

The new Deanery at Blackburn Cathedral seen in relation to the Cathedral tower and Church House.

Location

The Willows Presbytery, Kirkham

DDR — Sat, 13 May 2006 21:33:20 +0000

The New Presbytery & Meeting Room at The Willows, Kirkham, Lancashire. A new building of roughcast masonry with a Cumbrian slate roof adjacent to A.W.N.Pugin’s Church of St.John the Evangelist. Completed in 1994.

Photoset

House at Castletown, County Tipperary

DDR — Wed, 10 May 2006 13:26:35 +0000

The house is a succession of simple traditional forms connected (the house itself) and disconnected (garage/workshop) to create an elongated hierarchical form which exploits the gradually sloping site. The house was built by local craftsmen under the supervision of our client, David Higgins.

Six Foxes Farm, Mawdesley

DDR — Wed, 03 May 2006 12:23:27 +0000

Six Foxes Farm, Mawdesley, Lancashire: This picturesque group of building comprising a house and a large play barn replaces a collection of dilapidated farm buildings where most of the original features had long vanished. It provides a family home with a variety of rooms with changes in levels and character; a house in which to play hide and seek. There are many new features including a tower with circular stone staircase and a sewing room at the top, a quadrant shaped slype, tapering chimneys and a spired lantern. The building was published in Perspectives on Architecture, Oct/Nov 1996.