Photos of completed #Adare project: #Thatch #Conservation #Extension #protected #Structure

Below is a slideshow of images from the completed project in Adare. I’ll be adding this in due course to the PROJECTS section of the website together with a ‘Tear-sheet’ on the project: Credits: Architects and Project Supervisor Design Process: Read More …

Deadline for 2025 Conservation Advice Scheme for Vacant Traditional Houses is 2nd May!

The deadline for the 2025 Conservation Advice Scheme for Vacant Traditional Houses is fast approaching on the 2nd May Information on the scheme below – in the first (pilot cycle) we completed 2 – last year we successfully completed 4: Read More …

Planning permission granted on this contemporary barn extension to traditional Irish cottage…

We’ve received notofication that this contemporary barn extension to a traditional Irish cottage has been granted planning permission. The planners report included: “the applicant has submitted a revised design with the extension located to the side, reduced to single storey Read More …

Completion at this #Thatch #ProtectedStructure #Extension #Restoration #Cottage #Zinc

One of the last 2 projects that was started pre-pandemic has now reached completion (bar a few snags). The project was to restore and extend a thatched cottage (a Protected Structure (Listed if it was in UK)). The original thatch Read More …

Ongoing #Restoration works to this #ProtectedStructure just granted Planning Permission

Following on from THIS POST below is a short slideshow of the Gate Lodge in question and the ongoing restoration works: You can see the new extension/intervention in this slideshow also – a combination of a contemporary replica of the Read More …

Notification of planning received on this #Protected Structure #Restoration and #Extension #Conservation

We’ve just received notofication that planning is to be granted on THIS PROJECT I asked ‘God’s speed’ with!: Have a few hurdles in the planning process & a trickyish project that encompasses some retention planning, planning for new extension & Read More …

Conservation Advice Grant Scheme for Vacant Traditional Houses opens again – but you don’t have long!

The Conservation Advice Grant Scheme for Vacant Traditional Houses has opened again for 2024 but you don’t have long to get your ducks in a row! We completed two last year and hopefully do a couple this year too. The Read More …

God’s speed on this planning application… #ProtectedStructure #Contemporary #Pavilion

Tricky project going in for planning soonish. Works to a Protected Structure (you call it Listed in UK); a link section that moves into a separate similar volume which then links again into a more contemporary, zinc clad box at Read More …

A few projects recently granted planning…

Below are a few images of projects recently granted planning. Two are the reorganisation of an existing house with extensions and the third is a new house – All in County Mayo ps all very quick renders 😉 If you’re Read More …

It’s a wrap on the filming at the Lighthouse keepers cottage… #Conservation #Restoration

THIS POST gives information on the forthcoming film where one of our restoration projects was used as a location. Well the filming has been wrapped up and I went back when it was all over to take a few additional Read More …