Craighouse

For a highly sensitive site on the south side of Edinburgh, in the grounds of the old Craighouse hospital, we were asked to design a proposal for a group of terraced townhouses on the edge of a new park as part of wider development proposals.

Our scheme envisaged a terrace of twelve paired villas, faced on the park side in a traditional Edinburgh classical façade of sandstone with sash windows, and on the garden front in a more contemporary architectural treatment. We took great care to design facades based on authentic local detailing. The rear facades and mews were much more free in treatment, providing for an interesting contrast to the front elevations and allowing for very open-plan living within the large townhouses.

The scheme was welcomed by the clients but was not brought forward into planning.

Raby Castle Estates

Raby Castle Estates, in County Durham, has an extensive conservation management plan developed to ensure the future of several extraordinary heritage buildings both at the castle itself and in neighbouring villages.

As a part of this process, we were asked by the Estate to develop a masterplan for extensions to two villages, in Gainford and Staindrop. We worked to understand historic development patterns and architectural forms, before working closely with the estate, local communities and the local authority to bring forward two landscape-led proposals for these significant sites.

Wyndham Place

The design of these houses at Tisbury draws on the traditional architecture of North Wiltshire. We studied carefully the buildings of Tisbury and neighbouring villages such as Hindon in preparing our designs.

Arranged around a village Green and incorporating mixed-use workshops, the masterplan allows for 90 new houses in this village extension to the existing town. The houses are constructed of brick, stone and render with slate, tile and thatched roofs.

The developer of the project is CG Fry and Sons, with whom we have worked closely at Poundbury and on other housing schemes. The project completed in 2017 and, rarely for a new housing project, was awarded a Civic Trust Award that year.