Sitting just outside of the Medieval walls of the wonderful historic city of York, this impressive terrace house spread over five floors had endured the indignity of having been split into poor quality apartments by a ruthless landlord.

Dickinson Waugh were called in to save the day and transformed the run down building back in to a beautiful family home.

The works comprised extensive structural alterations at Basement level and careful yet sensitive informed restoration where appropriate set against a clean modern interior.

Dickinson Waugh are privileged and honoured to have been commissioned for this fantastic project; the former home of, and built for Sir Henry Royce.

As well as calling it home, it’s well documented that Sir Henry worked on many of his early automotive innovations within these very walls, and our client, a frequent flyer with DWA has big plans and has entrusted us to deliver to them a spectacular family home.

We’re currently preparing sketch schemes and working closely with the client to finalise the proposals.

Our specialism in working with listed buildings such as this will ensure the historic significance of the building is fully understood and protected, repairs are carried out appropriately and correctly and the potential of the building is maximised to meet the client’s dreams.

Client. Viva Brazil Restaurants
Contract Value. £165K

The first and original Viva Brazil having made a considerable mark and been an enormous success came back to the studio here at Dickinson Waugh.

The proposals comprised a general brand refresh and took advantage of the opportunity to extend into the first floor of this impressive Grade II listed former Banking Hall located at the heart of one of Liverpool’s World Heritage Areas.

Client. Hydes Brewery
Contract Value. £1.1m

A Grade II Listed building and a Hyde`s Heritage inn, this C17^th alderman’s country residence had latterly become a small Italian restaurant. Hyde’s acquired the site for conversion into a Heritage Inn with extensions and DWA’s Mike Maddocks was the man for the job!

Whilst being a Heritage Inn, the brief was to provide an light, bright and female friendly but traditional environment, with a strong food and wine emphasis aimed at the ladies of Cheshire – and associated males of course!

To lend credence to the seeming age of he extensions, salvaged stone arches, windows, rain water hoppers, leaded glass screens and church dado paneling was used extensively. Even the new ceilings were bowed as if with age: artifice perhaps, but effective.

The extensions were built in matching hand made bricks, to match the original, along with stone detailing – quoins, cills and door and window heads, with cast rainwater goods.

A small but charming external drinks and dining area completed the award winning exterior.

The client for this project approached Dickinson Waugh with the idea of extending their house.

Simply bolting on an extension was not the right solution in this case and so DWA developed proposals which will give the client their required additional floor space from within the existing building footprint.

The proposal is to excavate and form a Basement; which will lead through fully glazed sliding doors out to a sunken garden.

Again, our ability to appraise the heritage values attributed to a building at an early stage combined with our talent for design have resulted in a high quality and original solution.

Client. Fullers
Contract Value. £500K

Unusually for Fullers, with their immaculate estate, the Salutation had fallen into a rather sorry state and the brief was a difficult one, as it  lies at the wrong end of Hammersmith and had become a male-dominated big screen sports pub.

Mike was instructed to craft a solution that increased its appeal to both females and to an emerging quality 23-35 year old affluent market – but, a solution that simultaneously retained the sports element as the base for growth.

Additionally,the link to the very attractive beer garden had to be enhanced and transformed into a desirable area to settle rather than acting as a mere inhospitable corridor.

The resulting refurbishment was not only an immediate hit with the required target markets, but also drew some lavish praise from the Retail Director as a model for future similar complex solutions.

Snowdonia as a backdrop provides a setting second to none for this grade II listed former Rectory close to the town of Porthmadog.

Having been formerly converted in to a Hotel, this originally modest buidling was considerably extended and altered over the years. Some of the extensions and work have heritage value; which contributes greatly to the historic evolution of the building, some of the work is a little more ‘fit for purpose’………Never mind, it’s all part of the challenge.

The Rectory has laid empty for a considerable period of time and has recently been purchased by another regular Dickinson Waugh client who’s intention is to convert it back to a single dwelling as a home for their family.

Dickinson Waugh are delighted to have been appointed to guide this wonderful building back to functional use and prepare it for a cherished future as a family ‘hub’.

Is it any wonder why we love our work?

This is a beautiful mid Victorian; Italianate style home where we propose a large extension to provide a stunning swimming pool and additional accommodation.

Replicating original building styles when designing extensions to historic buildings can sometimes be considered as ‘pastiche’. The opportunity to re-use original salvage materials to form an extension which blends seamlessly with the original building was, however; too good an opportunity to pass up.

Due on site in 2014, another magnificent interior will undoubtedly be designed by Dawn Ward, we’re very excited about this project.

Client. Private Client
Contract Value. £500K

A fine example of a dynamic and modern solution ensuring another historically important building receives investment securing its future.

Our goal is to always provide the client with the optimum proposal in response to the brief. The challenge with historic buildings is to ensure that the cultural and architectural significance is not compromised.

Our expertise both in heritage and leisure design is exploited the full here with the end result being a stylish and sophisticated town centre venue, a reinvigorated listed building and a happy client.

Client. A R Stockton
Contract Value. £200K

This historically significant 19^th century canal warehouse building had regrettably received full height sheet metal cladding to its facade many years ago. This had resulted in water being trapped and penetrating into the fabric of the building causing considerable damage.

Dickinson Waugh were commissioned to obtain statutory consents and provide technical advice and specifications for the renovation and repair works.

Expertise knowledge of the technology and materials available for a particular period and indeed location is essential when carrying out repairs and alterations to historic buildings.

Conversely, understanding how modern techniques can help preserve and restore traditional building fabric and structure can often result in dynamic solutions.

The client was delighted with the completed project and with the ongoing regeneration works in Manchester, this building now sits well in a modern environment.