Country House
Commissioned in 1827 by Josiah Wedgwood’s daughter, Camp Hill is a large country house nestled in the North Staffordshire countryside. The site affords grand views of the well established grounds, which were frequented by non other than Charles Darwin.
The house included an unusually large proportion of servants quarters and ancillary rooms due to Sarah Wedgewood employing over 25 servants. With the quarters only being used for ad-hoc storage, our client wished to make better use of the space that those rooms occupied. As a result, several schemes were developed all focused around utilising the space as a kitchen, dining and lounge area. The proposal was a single storey space linked with the existing building in a sympathetic manner, utilising reclaimed brickwork and matching render. Large bi-folding doors of 2.8 metres in height were incorporated to take full advantage of the beautiful setting along with roof lanterns to give an airy and open feel to the kitchen dining space. Modern building practices including polished concrete flooring, sedum blanket green roofing, and aluminium fascias and guttering were included to juxtapose the original character of the country house.
Salts Healthcare
Tarpey Woodfine were appointed to develop a brief to relocate the client’s existing production and distribution facilities into a recently completed shell building, located at Aston Advanced Manufacturing Hub, Birmingham.
The brief called for a new canteen area, changing rooms and lockers, flexible research and development project rooms, and open plan office areas with flexible working options and enclosed meeting rooms. The storage and distribution facility including automated high bay racking, a separate office. Multiple mechanical and electrical services were incorporated, including compressed air, data, pumped drainage, water and a high level busbar power distribution trunking system.
Tarpey Woodfine worked closely with the client to develop the designs within very tight timescales. This was due to expiring leases on other client buildings and to minimise any disruption in production. An open book prime cost building contract was chosen to enable the design to move quickly, minimising the time spent on the tender process. The contract also enabled early involvement from the contractor and mechanical and electrical service engineers.
The collaborative work enabled the design to progress quickly with feedback from each discipline. The multi-phased scheme was developed and delivered on time and on budget.
“It was a pleasure to work with each member of [Tarpey Woodfine Architects] team and I look forward to doing so again, without hesitation.” Lee Tretheway, Operations Manager, Salt Healthcare.
Twin Oaks
Twin Oaks is a land mark property situated on the outskirts of Eccleshall. It was built in 1862 as the village school by the architect G.E. Street and later became the village Memorial Hall. It has had a number of uses over the years including a community centre and a cinema. In the early 1980’s the property was converted to a residential dwelling and underwent a thorough remodelling and renovation.
This project involved significant internal refurbishment, including removal of some internal walls and the formation of openings, the introduction of a modern staircase within the lounge to access a cinema room, and renovation of an internal swimming pool. Original features of this Grade 2 listed building were preserved for future generations, including sandstone Gothic arches and timber ribbon windows. An unsympathetic 80’s flat roof extension to the rear of the property was demolished and replaced with a contemporary extension with cornerless bi-folding doors and an overhanging roof providing a covered patio area.
The project boasts high end finishes and materials such as polished concrete flooring, granite worktops, a bespoke kitchen, frameless glass balustrades, Schuco aluminium doors, home automation audio visual systems and an automated ventilation and climate control system for the pool room.
“Tarpey Woodfine Architects helped us negotiate with our contractor, managed our expectations and held our hand throughout. Monthly site meetings helped us keep abreast of any issues which arose, enabling us to manage our budget effectively and making the whole process as stress free as possible. Thanks to Tarpey Woodfine we now have a beautiful family home and a little piece of beautifully preserved English history which we are extremely proud to own.” Mr & Mrs Wood
Bents Brewhouse
Set within a 3-storey early 19th Century listed building, this office space was created on the top floor of our clients house. The building has been refurbished throughout in such a way to emphasise the architectural and historic features of the property resulting in an attractive residential and home office scheme.
The building features large timber king-post trusses and purlins as well as traditional Georgian timber sash windows. Also, the open plan office is an eye-catching space to work in, particularly with the client’s modern artistic flare.
“Tarpey Woodfine helped me obtain planning and listed building consent on what was proving to be a troublesome property. Their knowledge of heritage and conservation, coupled with their design skills and planning experience have helped restore a significant listed building and create a thriving new business.” Client
Eccleshall Conservation
As part of the former George Hotel, this early 19th Century listed building had suffered from various unsympathetic 20th Century additions and modifications, including removal of the party wall between two properties to form the larger hotel and brewery footprint. Our work involved re-divided to form a 3-storey dwelling house on one side and a brewery and guest house on the other.
The listed building has been refurbished in such a way to emphasise the architectural and historic features of the property resulting in an attractive residential scheme.
Our client was keen to project manage the refurbishment themselves, which required close cooperation with both us and the local council’s conservation officer to ensure key features of the building were retained and refurbished with care and attention to detail.
“Tarpey Woodfine helped me obtain planning and listed building consent on what was proving to be a troublesome property. Their knowledge of heritage and conservation, coupled with their design skills and planning experience have helped restore a significant listed building and create a thriving new business.” Client
The Little George
As part of the former George Hotel, this early 19th Century listed building had suffered from various unsympathetic 20th Century additions and modifications, including removal of the party wall between two properties to form the larger hotel and brewery footprint. Our work involved re-divided to form a 3-storey dwelling house on one side and a brewery and guest house on the other.
The listed building has been refurbished in such a way to emphasise the architectural and historic features of the property resulting in an attractive residential scheme.
Our client was keen to project manage the refurbishment themselves, which required close cooperation with both us and the local council’s conservation officer to ensure key features of the building were retained and refurbished with care and attention to detail.
“Tarpey Woodfine helped me obtain planning and listed building consent on what was proving to be a troublesome property. Their knowledge of heritage and conservation, coupled with their design skills and planning experience have helped restore a significant listed building and create a thriving new business.” Client
Michelin Tyre Plc
We were asked by MTPLC to produce designs for alterations to two large factory buildings. These designs were part of a major re-organisation of the Stoke-on-Trent factory site.
The works involved the re-construction of a loading bay elevation, consisting of 26 loading bays and associated external works in addition to major alterations to another factory building, which included the construction of a new office block above an existing office block and full refurbishment of the existing offices and factory floor.
The project presented many challenges with a very tight programme for the production information and co-ordination of factory production throughout the construction works. We provided resources to achieve a quick design process and production of tender information. The designs were developed with regular client and design team meetings to determine phasing and procurement strategies.
The project was delivered under a design and build contract with Tarpey Woodfine Architects being novated to the main contractor, who were locally based. Throughout the build, a flexible and co-operative relationship was maintained so that the building works were completed in line with the client’s master programme for the factory site.
Hassell Street
Situated within the conservation area and at the heart of Newcastle-under-Lyme town centre, this project involved the complete gutting of the former council offices and basement public convenience’s to make way for 30 modern self-contained student accommodation studio units, 2 common rooms and laundry facilities. The project included the complete internal alteration and external refurbishment of the original 1950’s building, which had become something of an eyesore in the town.
The building’s external refurbishment works, whilst contemporary, required careful setting-out to ensure that the façade did not undermine the surrounding vernacular. Particularly due to neighbouring buildings being listed and within the towns conservation area.
The studio units provide all amenities required for today’s student, including high speed networked internet access, full kitchen and independent sanitary facilities, secure key fob and intercom building access, high energy efficiency heating & lighting giving an Energy Performance Certification of ‘C’ and above.
The Broughton Arms
The Broughton Arms is a landmark pub near to Betley and has been a popular haunt for diners for many years. Paragon Pub Group bought the freehold of the site and have obtained is seeking planning permission to demolish the old extensions and rebuild a spectacular new contemporary restaurant while still retaining the historical front of the pub. Plans are underway to get the Broughton Arms open late 2019 and excitement is building within the company about this prestigious project
Poswillo Cataract Suite
Poswillo Cataract Suite was a project aimed at improving theatre and bed capacity for the surgical division at Royal Stoke University Hospital. The 20 week project involved converting a staff accommodation area within Trent Building into a state-of-the-art eye suite to enable the local treatment of ever increasing numbers of cataract patients, thus alleviating current pressures on main theatres within the hospital.
The facility incorporates a reception & discharge area, a consultant’s office and an anaesthetics, scrub, prep and theatre area which assists day case medical procedures to be completed in one location.
