RESIDENTIAL / PERIOD & LISTED HOMES ★
Extend and update a home with history — without losing what makes it.
Listed building consent, conservation-area schemes and sympathetic extensions to period homes. Heritage statements, conservation-officer negotiation and specialist repair are what we do best.
- We handle
- Listed building consent
- Includes
- Heritage statements
- Also
- Conservation-area work
- Proven
- Grade I & II settings
- “We've been told our house is listed and we're scared to touch it.”
- “The conservation officer said no — is that final?”
- “We want modern living in an old house, done sympathetically.”
Every change to a listed building — a new opening, an extension, sometimes even a repair — needs listed building consent, justified by a heritage impact assessment: the evidence that explains what matters about the building and why the change respects it. That document, and the negotiation with the conservation officer behind it, is where consents are won and lost.
We prepare the heritage case, design interventions that are legible, reversible and respectful, and carry the specialist repair through construction. We've done it in a Grade I Georgian townscape and on Grade II fabric — an initial 'no' from an officer is a design brief, not a verdict.
- Consents secured in Grade I townscapes and on Grade II listed buildings — see the projects.
- We write and argue the heritage impact assessment ourselves, not through a chain of consultants.
- Specialist repair delivered by the same team that designed it.
Former Seamen's Institute — consent in a Grade I townscape
A derelict landmark on Bristol's Queen Square, rescued by good planning — heritage, sustainability and mixed-use argued and won, without an appeal.
Read the case studyCan you extend a listed building?
Yes, with the right heritage case. We've secured consent in Grade I townscapes and on Grade II listed fabric — see the projects.
What's a heritage impact assessment?
The evidence that justifies each change to a heritage officer — the building's significance, the proposed intervention, and why it preserves what matters. We prepare and negotiate it.
The conservation officer refused a previous scheme. Is that the end?
Rarely. A refusal usually tells you what the officer needs to see. We've turned early resistance into support through pre-application engagement and iterative design.
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A listed home isn't a locked home.
A short conversation with Tom is the fastest way to find out what’s possible — no fee, no obligation, an honest read on your site.