Greycoat Stores project is near completion. The building will provide c. 70,000 sq ft of workspace across eight floors. The original Victorian warehouse has been redeveloped with a new front façade and the addition of the sixth and seventh floors creating two new floors with private terraces. The building will also offer a variety of amenities including an onsite café, restaurant and gym.

Client: Victoria Spaces (UK) Ltd

Project management: Meridian

Planning consultants: Brunel Planning

Architects: SPPARC

The Heritage Practice: Townscape and Heritage professional advisory services

The refurbishment of a Grade II listed apartment in Westminster has been successfully completed, with THP offering comprehensive design, heritage, and planning services.

Building Design Magazine has published plans by Garnett Architecture to refurbish a 1960s office on Russell Square .

The corner site is a conspicuously modernist building in a highly sensitive heritage area. The site is within a conservation area and surrounded by listed buildings. The existing building forms part of a row of grade II listed townhouses on the southern side of the London square. Under the refurbishment plans, the building would be reclad with terracotta-coloured GRC to match the colour scheme of the neighbouring townhouses.

Heritage consultancy services have been provided by The Heritage Practice.

The Heritage Practice was brought on board following 3 failed attempts at appeal to convert the Tower of the grade II listed former Belsize Fire Station.

We reconsidered the approach from a heritage point of view including making recommendations to the scheme and advising a change in layout and use to each level of the tower.

The subsequent listed building consent application was successfully defended at Appeal Hearing with the appeal allowed and listed building consent granted for the conversion of a former fire station tower (sui generis) to a one-bedroom residential unit.

The appeal decision remarked that “the conversion has been skilfully designed around the surviving features, such as the spiral staircase and plan form… As a result, the history and original design of the tower would remain highly legible. “

The Belsize Fire Station was constructed in the early 20th Century, which was a creative period of fire station design in London. The structure is a distinctive building that fuses rich and carefully detailed arts and crafts domestic architecture with the functional requirements of a fire station.

Photo Source: Tate + Co architects

An application for Planning permission has been submitted for a contemporary townhouse in the heart of Hampstead. The narrow infill site is within a conservation area and with nearby listed buildings. The design response respects the proportions of the neighbouring properties, seeking to optimise the potential of the site and enhance the local streetscene.

The Heritage Practice act as lead consultant, heritage consultant and client liaison.

Client: Private

Architects: Echlin

Planning: Forward Planning and Development

Daylight Sunlight: Delva Patman Redler

Structural: Pryce and Myers

BIA; Soiltechnics

Energy and Sustainability: The PES

(image courtesy of Echlin Architects)

Planning permission and listed building consent granted for the full refurbishment of four grade II listed town houses now converted into office accommodation. The buildings were originally constructed in the mid 17th century but were re-fronted in painted stucco with Italianate detailing in the early 19th century. The consented works include two new lifts and a new stair. The office accommodation covers a total 2,930sqm and would create elegant, modern buildings with interventions that respect and enhance the significance and setting of the listed buildings, the conservation area and their immediate townscape, while reinforcing the importance of each individual building.

Approval: November 2023

Client: The Bedford Estates

Heritage: The Heritage Practice

Planning: Savills

Architects: SPPARC

Structural Design: Mason Navarro Pledge

Noise Impact: Venta Acoustics

Permission has been granted on appeal for a largely residential building in Croydon which would comprise a part 14 storey ‘shoulder’ and 28 storey ‘tower.’ The proposed scheme would provide 498 co-living units and associated communal amenity spaces (Use Class Sui Generis), 84 residential units (Use Class C3) along with commercial and flexible commercial.

The site is adjacent to The NLA tower which is a locally listed building and recognised as a Local Designated Landmark and a Non Designated Heritage Asset (NDHA). The tower was designed by Richard Seifert and Partners, with engineers Ove Arup and Partners, and constructed in 1968- 70. Seifert was an important figure in the post-war history of London architecture and other buildings designed by the Seifert practice, include Centre Point.

The Heritage Practice were appointed as Townscape and Heritage consultants for the project and completed a Heritage Visual Impact Assessment for the site which detailed the effect of the development on views of the NDHA.

In his allowing of the appeal, the Inspector concluded with our assessment that ‘the height, massing and design of the proposed development would not visually compete or distract from the NDHA’. Furthermore, the inspector also concurred that ‘the NLA tower was also part of purposeful growth agenda from the 1950 onwards that involved substantial buildings in the town centre and thus, the need for unobscured views of NLA tower in all directions is not justified in terms of setting.’

Co-director Kate Graham has been appointed as a panel member of the Tower Hamlets Quality Review Panel.

The purpose of the Tower Hamlets Quality Review Panel (formerly CADAP) is to provide independent, expert design advice. It also guides planning officers, applicants and members of the Planning Committees.

Kate is also a panel member of the Hackney DRP.

Permission has recently been granted (November 2023) for a new Residential development on an backland site in Lambeth’s Walcot Square Conservation Area. The scheme by Fathom Architects secured unanimous approval for a development by Lambeth Planning Committee

The consented scheme adds a contemporary brick building to the rich fabric of the Walcot Estate and reinstates the historic street frontage to Bishop’s Terrace.

The site is owned by the Walcot Foundation, a charity that works to break cycles of financial deprivation in Lambeth. Income from the new development will be used to extend The Walcot Foundation’s charitable work in Lambeth, supporting more people and organisations in the borough with access to grants and opportunities.

Construction works are on going to the handsome Victorian buildings which occupy a prominent stretch of Farringdon Road, a short walk from Farringdon Crossrail station, within the Clerkenwell Green Conservation Area.

Planning permission which was received in November 2021.

Workspace on the upper levels is extended with a replacement fifth floor sympathetic to the original Victorian building, and an added contemporary recessed sixth floor – increasing the available space by 920 sqm. A new sixth floor is conceived as a contemporary celebration of the industrial character of the warehouse, echoing design motifs and colours found in the carved window spandrels.

Thanks to Fathom Architects for use of their image.

The Heritage Practice have successfully gain listed building consent for complete refurbishment of the Egyptian Consulate in London.

The application was received on 25 September 2023 and approved on 17 October 2023

No.2 Lowndes Street is four storey terraced townhouse, set over a semi-basement and with a mansard roof. It was designed by Thomas Cubitt and dates from the late 1830s. The building is Grade II listed and situated in the Belgravia Conservation Area.

Permission has been secured for 37,000sqft of office retrofit and extension to a series of Listed Buildings in the heart of the Bloomsbury. The scheme works with the plan-form of a Georgian townhouse, restoring orientation and hierarchy among three connected properties, a corresponding mews building to the rear, and a light, garden-like link structure in between. Cellular offices are transformed into sociable workspaces with new open floorplates, pavilion extensions of mass timber construction, and a series of roof terraces.

Description goes hereAn outline application for a mixed use scheme with commercial units and 70 new houses has recently been submitted for an interesting site in Wormbridge, Herefordshire by the Whitfield Estate. The Heritage Practice has acted as heritage advisors for the scheme, advising on the proposed site layout and masterplan developed by Robert Myers Associates and providing a heritage appraisal in support of the application. Some very interesting nearby heritage assets including the unlisted former service wing and grade II listed former coach house and stables to Wormbridge House, a late 17th century building that was demolished in 1798 leaving only its ancillary buildings behind. We have also had the privilege of assessing the proposed new uses for the heritage assets on the site and preparing heritage appraisals for their conversion.

We are delighted that our project in North London by Chris Dyson Architects has been shortlisted to the RIBA London Regional Awards 2023.

The Heritage Practice have been appointed as Heritage Consultants for the The Architectural Association (AA). We will be working on their campus is located in historic 18th century Bedford Square

Having originally occupied numbers 34 and 35 Bedford Square in 1917, the AA now inhabits all of the buildings from number 32 to 39, in addition to a set of spaces on Morwell Street, which would once have been the mews behind the Georgian terraced houses.

The Heritage Practice are appointed as Heritage Consultants and Conservation Strategists for Apothecaries’ Hall. The Hall is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and is Grade I listed.

The Worshipful Society of Apothecaries is a City Livery Company. The hall is the oldest livery company hall in London.

The hall was purchased by the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries (pharmacists) to serve as their Hall in 1632. Largely destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666, the Hall was rebuilt, incorporating the medieval remains between 1669 and 1672.

Domvs London, in partnership with UAE investor-developer Select Group, has received unanimous support from Camden Borough Planning Committee for 52 Avenue Road, a new ultra-prime residential address in St John’s Wood, Central London.

Mitchell Ely Gould Architects have secured consent for the rejuvenation and re-imagination of the ‘Tin Shed’; a former village club that will now be a work hub by day and a community hub by night.

Nelson Dock House has been shortlisted for the Georgian Group Architectural Awards 2022 in the `Restoration of a Georgian Building in an Urban Setting` category.

Nelson Dock House was built by a shipwright in 1743, overlooking his boatyard on the Thames at Rotherhithe. In the 1970s it became a conference centre for the Hilton hotel built on the dockyard.

The building was in poor condition and the client set about restoring its accommodation to serve as a single residence once more, returning its joinery, plasterwork and other Georgian details to their former condition.

International skincare company opens its UK headquarters in central London following a full refurbishment of this grade II listed building for which The Heritage Practice secured the consent.

The scheme incorporates bold modern timber enclosures to house WCs and kitchens. The enclosures incorporates shadow gaps between new and original walls to emphasise to create contemporary sculptural features within the historic rooms and allow the original volumes and features to remain distinct and legible.

Consented sustainable retrofit extends the lifespan of this late 19th century mansion block facing Abbey Road.

The scheme, by Fathom Architects for client Henigman, upgrades the outdated existing building to craft a new identity adding richness and character to the streetscape of Abbey Road and its wider Conservation Area setting.

Originally built as a row of terraced houses, and later remodelled as an apartment block, the design sensitively repurposes the existing brick building to significantly improve its environmental performance and create 29 accessible contemporary residences.

The reconfigured and extended building increases the density of homes on-site by five and the area to 31,505 sq ft.

Strike has opened its new boutique bowling alley in the grade II-listed building that forms part of the UK’s oldest brewery.

The new bowling alley is housed within the iconic heritage at the historic Young’s brewery site, Wandsworth High Street, in the redeveloped Ram Quarter.

MWA’s proposals for a property within the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea has received unanimous planning consent. The site, a mews building located in the Brompton Conservation Area, was developed as stables for an adjacent property on Brompton Square built in the early 1820s. The application site was redeveloped in the 1960s after suffering irreparable bomb damage during WWII.

The existing building has little architectural or historical merit with fenestration and apertures that are not in keeping with the streetscape or character of the conservation area. Our proposals look to demolish and rebuild a new two storey dwellinghouse with a subterranean basement.

Fathom Architects receive consent to revive and extend a series of Clerkenwell warehouses for client BentallGreenOak, securing their future as workspace by reducing their carbon footprint, creating a coherent identity and enhancing tenant experience.

The handsome Victorian buildings occupy a prominent stretch of Farringdon Road, a short walk from Farringdon Crossrail station, within the Clerkenwell Green Conservation Area.

Workspace on the upper levels is extended with a replacement fifth floor sympathetic to the original Victorian building, and an added contemporary recessed sixth floor – increasing the available space by 920 sqm.

Building work is complete to transform this Grade II listed Italian Hospital building into the new Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) Sight and Sound Centre.

The new GOSH Sight and Sound Centre supported by Premier Inn will transform the experience and care of children and young people from across the UK. Patients and over 100 clinicians have moved from outdated existing facilities into the bespoke, multi-disciplinary Centre designed especially for these children’s sensory needs.

Architecture studio SPPARC has received planning consent for Greycoat Stores, a 78,000 sq ft flagship mixed-use destination development in Westminster London.

Planning consent has been secured for the new two-storey extension, replacement façade, use class designations and internal re-modelling on Greycoat Stores, 10 Greycoat Place.

This key milestone in the project represents two years of intensive design work and consultation with WCC and local stakeholders. The planning committee approved the plans unanimously.

Greycoat Stores is a former warehouse of The Army & Navy Co-operative Society Ltd whose distinctive premises and stores form a key part of the identity, history and townscape of Westminster.

Make Architects has designed the architectural concept and guestroom interiors for London’s latest Nobu Hotel. Located on Portman Square in Marylebone, the project has refurbished and extended an existing hotel formed of two towers atop a podium. David Collins Studio designed the communal interiors.

Make’s proposals include a new facade to the ground and first floors, a new double-height entrance and drop-off area with a canopy, plus new F&B spaces. The dark reconstituted stone facade wraps the main elevation along Upper Berkeley Street, following a new cladding line which steps forward to align with neighbouring buildings, and recesses to make space for two existing mature trees. Extensions at the north and south-west provide new and improved amenity spaces.

A scheme designed by HUT for which THP were the heritage consultants has been acquired by Aviva for £42M. The team worked closely with Hackney & Historic England to achieve significant planning gain on a Listed building, restoring heritage features, adding commuter facilities and upgrades throughout to create what will be an exemplary NZC retrofit workplace.

Mitchell Ely Gould architects complete Chew Valley home. The existing and already previously extended dwelling in East Harptree was known locally as the ‘Ugly House’. The scheme design sought to remodel the house to suit the clients and their family, bring light into the house throughout and take advantage of the view towards Chew Valley Lake.

The property neighbours a grade II listed Church and manages this adjacency with its recessive matt black charred timber cladding and black tin roof mimicking the agricultural forms locally. The careful detailing keeps the form clipped and neat within its setting and totally transforms the home from its ugly bungalow beginnings.

Echlin Architects designed and secured planning for a major architectural overhaul of this 3 storey grade II listed villa-style terraced home for private clients in Belgravia. A new portland stone and glass rear extension and enhanced basement level bring the home up to date and flood the property with natural light.

THP received delegated planning permission for an additional storey on this mews building in a Westminster conservation area following a roof extension scheme which had been dismissed at appeal.

The site was designated as a heritage asset and was previously considered by Westminster to be a completed composition and therefore unsuitable for a roof extension.

Description goes hereWorks have been completed to convert the former office to provide a day school for Westminster Cathedral Choir School.

47 Francis Street a grade II listed building within the Westminster Cathedral Conservation Area. It is mid-nineteenth century and comprises of five storeys. It was originally built as a boarding school for girls and is currently used as an office (Class B1) on the ground and upper floor levels and a friary (sui generis) at the basement level.

Listed building consent is secured for full refurbishment of two separate flats in this grade II listed block of mansion flats, located in the heart of the Howard De Walden Estate in Marylebone.

Planning consented for an office building with 280,000 sqft uplift in area will allow the building to contribute 490,000 sqft of workspace.

The collaboration between client London & Regional, structural engineers Heyne Tillet Steel, MEP Engineers Atelier 10, planning consultants SM Planning and architects Piercy&Company will transform the existing Skipton House building in London's Elephant and Castle.

Consented granted to this grade II Listed Building Within the Blackheath Conservation Area.

The works include full refurbishment including demolition of the existing side extension and creation of a lower ground and ground floor side extension to accommodate car parking at lower ground floor level with a new kitchen and dining area at ground floor.

A sensitive programme of alteration and restoration has been completed by our private client that has significantly enhanced this grade I listed gatehouse. These works have included internal and external alterations such as the reinstatement of a tudor-style chimney and dormers at second-floor level.