Sussex House

This house and it’s adjacent house (Owned by the Moroccan Embassy) were built around 1720. No 9 Little College St was two houses then, one of which included the current No10. After major works in the 18880’s and again in the 1920’s the Church Commissioners converted it into offices, along with fire partition walls, cheap pine floor boards and all the other design features you would expect from cheap 1960’s offices. Our brief was to recreate the house as close what it would have looked like in the 1720’s, given that they didn’t have ground floor kitchens or any bathrooms, but functioning like a new build with three reception rooms, seven bedrooms, five bathrooms, two kitchens and an up to date spec for plumbing, electrics and aircon.‍

A new built orangery linking the main house with the annexe wing to form a rear entrance hall and boot room. The 1000sq ft room has a lead roof, underfloor heating, basement and glazed screen with French windows opening onto the garden. We have carried four further projects for Woolley over the years including the full renovation of the dowager gate house, the Stables Cottage and Manor Farm along with repairs and maintenance to the main house.

The architect was asked to maximise the light and space in this 1970’s new build. His solution was to remove the face of the building over three floors where it faced the sea and cantilever the first and second floors out over the ground floor. This way the ground floor external walls could be replaced with fully opening floor to ceiling glass doors, merging the open plan inside space with the garden. In addition to these works we built extensions on both sides of the house and renovated the remainder creating a beautiful family house worthy of it’s location.

Originally built in 1890 with stone quarried in North Wales and transported on the new railway line, Holmedown was in a desperate state. One of the first generation of houses to be built with cavity walls, the wall ties were made from clay (like bricks) but had sheared through. The outer leaves were in the process of falling away from the inner leaves. Having stitched the whole building back together again with specialist ties we built a Victorian style orangery and gym extension along with a full renovation of the whole house. Complete with swimming pool, tennis court, saunas, walled kitchen gardens, converted coach houses, stables and landscaping the renovation took nearly three years. We have carried out three other renovation projects for these clients over the years.

We fully renovated a Devon long house to create a family home that blended traditional country cottage finishes with a bit of luxury. The total overhaul included creating an open-plan kitchen living area along with all new bathrooms and bedrooms. We created a dedicated yoga studio built a stunning 20-meter pool and landscaped the gardens.

Originally built by William Palling in 1665 and later modified in the 1700s by his heirs, Brownshill Court near Painswick was close to ruin. West Country Renovations stepped in to restore this 17th century palladian grade 2* gem meticulously, using matching stone and materials to preserve all the original architectural details. The architecture has been attributed to Anthony Keck – a great admirer of Robert Adam – with other impressive houses to his name including Highgrove in Tetbury and the Lammas in Minchinhampton. The planning and design for this renovation was done by Richard Parr (architect). In the early 20th century the house had been converted into five separate flats but has now been converted back into a magnificent single stately home complete with a cutting edge mechanical and electrical installation, ensuite bathrooms, lift and magnificent modern kitchen, all without compromising the original fabric of the building.