Verity & Beverley, Architects and Designers are a creative and innovative practice experienced in the conservation, restoration and refurbishment of listed buildings, new houses, modern structures within historic environments and interior architectural design.

Originally founded in 1871 by Thomas Verity the practice designed numerous iconic landmark buildings throughout the United Kingdom including The Criterion Theatre in Piccadilly Circus, the Pavilion at Lord’s Cricket Ground, Scarborough Spa and many of the Art Deco theatres and cinemas for the Paramount company.

Based in Tetbury in Gloucestershire since 1981 we have built up a strong reputation throughout the Cotswolds and surrounding Counties for our pragmatic yet creative design approach with both traditional Cotswold vernacular and also contemporary new buildings and alterations to meet modern living requirements.

We are a community of Architects, Masterplanners and Heritage Consultants. By continually reimagining places within urban and rural landscapes across the world, we unlock value and create sustainable futures for our clients’ sites. We research, analyse and then masterplan, survey, conserve and repair, adapt and refurbish, design, extend and build new within complex contexts. We understand the values embedded in these places and how to build a successful case for change.

We work to the highest standards within our client’s aspirations and budgets. This is the most satisfying and rewarding way of working. It is because the places on which we work matter so much that they demand design and intervention that does not compromise what has come before. Working like this requires resilience, energy and creativity to make the most of the opportunities we are given.

Roger Mears Architects believes that architecture is the key to enhancing our clients’ experience of daily life.

Our philosophy is to create beautifully crafted buildings that reflect our clients’ styles and personalities, within an historic context. Our work is guided by SPAB principles, with a focus on conservation and sustainability –caring for traditional buildings using a modern approach.

Each project is unique with its own story of its journey through time. We help uncover each building’s distinctive features, which determines careful and meticulous repair. Where required, we add to the narrative of the building by designing new features, additions and extensions derived from the original details, but in a 21st- century idiom. Each repair is honest in detail, and each addition is designed to ensure that the building is enjoyed by another new generation.

A selection of our work from our 35 year history is displayed in the Projects section, with some shown below.

Touseer is a Certified European Passivhaus Designer (CEPHD). Passivhaus being the world’s leading international low energy design standard, adopting a fabric first approach to building. It is a highly innovative and effective way of reducing energy use, as well as providing high standards of comfort and building health.

Peregrine Bryant Architects offer a full range of architectural services and consultation. Typically we will follow a project right through from the initial discussions with our client, to occupation and settling the accounts and outstanding issues with the contractor.

We have a breadth of experience at all stages of the process, and are available for consultation or to produce specific reports at any point. Listed below are some of the services that we provide, however if you would like to discuss whether we can assist you please do not hesitate to contact us.

- Initial design studies and proposals
- Feasibility studies
- Quinquennial Reports
- Conservation Reports
- Planning Approval
- Listed Building Consent
- Detailing and Specifications
- Tender packages
- Project Management
- On-site advice
Contract administration
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We are a small architectural studio specialising in the trasnformation of historic buildings and the design of beautifully crafted new homes.

Mark Hines was the project architect responsible for the £1.4bn remodelling and transformation of the BBC’s grade two* listed Broadcasting House. He is a former design director of respected London design practice MacCormac Jamieson Prichard and is one of the UK’s few Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) Scholars, which was set up in 1877 by William Morris.

Having gained valuable experience in a large office, our architectural practice unites contemporary design and conservation and is focussed on how architecture can help improve people’s quality of life.

Working on listed buildings often requires the involvement of a design architect and a conservation specialist. Our background in both worlds unites high-quality design and conservation expertise in a single practice, allowing us to breathe new life into all types of historic buildings.

We see architecture, restoration, interior design, and conservation work as discrete strands of a single discipline, rather than separate specialisms in their own right. This approach can help enhance the experience and image of the building and create places where historic architecture, later modifications, carefully judged restoration work and successive redevelopment projects all merge and blend seamlessly into a single harmonious whole.

Born out of a passion for craft and making, our new projects combine the qualities of traditional architecture but meet contemporary needs. We try to give all our buildings an air of timelessness and durability with a focus on warmth, comfort, and character and use beautiful, traditional materials like brick, stone, and timber in different ways to create cosy, humane and atmospheric buildings.

Our experience in the design, conservation, and commercial worlds allows the development of new proposals that are directly informed by a thorough understanding of the specific historical, cultural, social, economic and physical context of each situation and helps us simplify the design and construction process, balance competing demands and minimise costs.

David Nossiter BA (Hons) Dip Arch RIBA CR FRSA

David read architecture at Plymouth University under Professor Adrian Gale and at The Bartlett, University College London, under Professor Jonathan Hill.

Prior to this, David spent two years at art college, where he developed his drawing skills.

David has over 25 years experience in professional practice. He was elected as an RIBA member and admitted to the architects register in 2001, following seven years in practice working with Proctor and Matthews, Mole and Ellis Williams among others. During this time David worked on a large variety of projects, including The Baltic Arts Centre, Gateshead and innovative housing projects at Greenwich Millennium Village and New Hall, Harlow.

Since qualifying as a registered architect, David has worked with Mole architects on a new studio building for the Department of Architecture at Cambridge University as well as several new build eco and passive houses.

David is an accredited RIBA Conservation Registrant (see Listed Buildings & Conservation Areas).

He received wide acclaim for the conversion of a dilapidated Listed barn into a contemporary dwelling, winning a Sunday Times British Homes Award.

He is actively engaged with issues concerning the built environment on a wider level (see Teaching, Voluntary & Supportive Roles).

Launchpadd is a new breed of consultant architect. Launchpadd is creative, lean and nimble, can act fast and has more than 25 years of front end experience delivering buildings of a value between £2 and £40 million.

With Launchpadd you will get the totally dedicated and focused service of a highly experienced Partner level architect for much less than you would pay one of the mainstream consultancies or frameworks to provide the same service.

Nick Allen is a Chartered Architect and Registered RIBA Client Advisor who founded Metz architects in 1996 and ran the practice for 20 years designing and delivering many of the buildings here. Nick is now a private consultant and the driving force behind Launchpadd.

Castria offers an integrated architecture and engineering service through a truly collaborative design process and our creative business culture. Our talented team of architects, engineers, surveyors and designers apply their technical expertise and imaginative problem-solving skills to a wide range of sectors and scale of projects.

For all projects we aim to provide an excellent service and value for our clients. We want to contribute to great placemaking, to be instrumental in reducing impact on the natural environment and in sustaining the historic environment.

OUR SERVICES - We are professionals in managing and delivering design, leveraging on knowledge from a variety of disciplines to customise a project particularly to the demands of our clients.

ARCHITECTURE

We deliver the aspirations of our clients from feasibility study to concept design, from detailed design to interior architecture. We do this by listening carefully and researching the project brief, prioritising the client’s objectives, providing inspiration and understanding the budget.

The team always work closely with the client to evolve, and deliver design excellence throughout planning, procurement, and the construction phases of a project.

We offer a full architectural design, Principal Designer, Interior Architecture and contract administration services in sectors spanning hospitality, civic, cultural, residential, defence, education, commercial, and industrial.

ENGINEERING

Our engineering team is highly experienced across a wide range of sectors including commercial, residential, civic, industrial, and education but with specific specialist expertise in the defence sector and in marine structural, environmental, and civil engineering. We provide flood risk services as part of our core offer.

We strive for cost effective solutions for all our projects, but also those which best meet the project objectives. We work with the wider team to achieve excellent outcomes for interventions in the more sensitive historic and natural environments to maintain their values and to minimise impact. Where innovation is needed, we provide expertise and guidance on appropriate strategies and the management of risk.

The engineering team can be augmented to cover Building Services, specialist survey and access activities for a reassuringly comprehensive and integrated design team offer.

HERITAGE

Castria is expert in managing change in the historic environment, with specialists across the disciplines in strategic heritage management, conservation practice and conservation engineering. We are knowledgeable in methods of conservation and repair, adept at the creative and sustainable adaptation of heritage properties and in introducing new build structures and interventions sensitively within the historic environment.

The work we do for visual inspections, Quadrennials and Quinquennials is supplemented with the latest technology supporting our conservation work using 3D point cloud survey data, the use of drones and ground penetrating radar.

MASTERPLANNING

Masterplanning is fundamental to sustainable development, and we place great significance as a team on designs which involve the community in shaping the built environment. We are experienced in integrating urban design principles in all types of development, landscape design-led approaches, experiential design, low carbon strategies, community consultation and more creative engagement practice.

Formed in 2009 Michael Atkinson Architecture + Heritage are contemporary and historic building specialists based in the North East of England. The practice has established a reputation for dealing with sensitive projects as part of World Heritage Sites, Conservation Areas and groups of Listed Buildings. There is an established expertise in ecclesiastical design, repair and maintenance across varying denominations coupled with Church Inspector appointments at highly significant churches in the region. Services include full architectural design (briefing to completion), preparation of conservation plans and statements, quinquennial condition reports and defects investigations, building recording, management plans and skills training. Michael Atkinson is accredited in building conservation (AABC), Chair of York Conservation Alumni Association, Treasurer of the IHBC (North Branch) and DAC Member for the Durham Diocese.

The office of Wiles and Maguire Ltd is located in a bright and airy 1950’s school building close by the river in York. Founded in 2001 by Andrew Wiles and Martha Maguire the staff currently comprise of the director, Andrew Wiles, and a small team of assistants.

Andrew Wiles, Director - Andrew is a fully qualified architect and is on the Historic England approved register of ‘Architects Accredited in Building Conservation’ (AABC). The specialist research carried out for his MA was in the ‘timber construction of the early medieval period’ this remains a passion to this day. He sits as an architect member of the Sheffield Diocesan Advisory Committee and the Catholic Diocese of Hallam as their Historic England liaison. He is registered as a Church inspecting Architect (suitable for Grade 1 listed churches) with the Diocese of York, Sheffield, Ripon, Durham and Lincoln.

Andrew has worked exclusively with the repair and regeneration of historic buildings since 1988. His expertise and confidence in tackling any conservation challenge arises in part from these many years of experience actually seeing traditional skills being carried out by experts. For the first 10 years he worked with Martin Stancliffe who was at that time the Cathedral Architect for St Paul’s in London. A life encountering these special buildings is an invaluable resource but he also regularly attends, and contributes to, specialist courses and workshops to keep abreast of the ever evolving modern conservation technology and trends.

Stephen Levrant Heritage Architecture is the continuation of a specialist practice originally founded in 1948. At our three offices in London, Bristol and Manchester, we work in planning, urban design, and on practical projects in construction, within the historic environment. Our work is exclusively with historic buildings and within conservation areas. Our surveys, appraisals and inspections are renowned for an intricate and holistic approach using detailed knowledge and experience of historic methods of construction, decoration and furnishing.

We are design-led and research-orientated. We are critical about what we do. But we have lots of fun as we love the challenge of the craft of building.

We undertake commissions both small and large and specialise in projects that respond creatively to their context.

We work with an interdisciplinary network of makers, builders, and designers leading to innovative collaborations.

We are committed to design, detailing and materiality. Attention to detail has always been our lens, and our love for design and building sites is the engine.

We take the term collaboration seriously. Architecture studios have a social responsibility to the public, a technical responsibility to the structure and an intellectual responsibility

We are a medium sized practice with specialist skills in building conservation and sustainable architecture. We offer creative solutions to design problems within a historic or a contemporary context. We have excellent technical ability in building conservation but understand the need for creativity in all things architectural. Working in close collaboration with our clients and other professionals, the practice has a deserved reputation in the field of the historic environment, especially within the ecclesiastical world but bring our skills to bear on projects for many others who own or care for old buildings, as well as a large number of private clients commissioning domestic work.

Based in the cathedral city of Salisbury, projects range regionally, across the south of England and further afield. We have no desire to impose a house-style, rather to find design outcomes appropriate to context and to individual circumstance. The portfolio of work on this website illustrates the diversity of the solutions that result and the partners, Michael Drury and Antony Feltham~King are always very happy to discuss future projects in person.

We take ideas from their conceptual vision and bring them into their fully designed reality, always enhancing the environment and quality of life through well considered and precisely executed Architecture.

Our team specialise in environmentally sustainable Architecture, and provide the highest quality of design solutions for all types and scale of projects. Studio West Architects is located in St. Just, West Cornwall, and a majority of our work is with private houses – new builds, extensions or alterations and we have extensive experience with both traditional and contemporary buildings. We are available to work on both single properties or larger housing developments and commercial apartments, including affordable housing projects.

Other types of project that we undertake are Heritage buildings, Community projects, Schools and Playgroup buildings, Health care – such as Doctor’s surgeries, camp sites and holiday parks, Shops, Restaurants and Transport facilities. Charles is specialised in Environmental design and Low Energy buildings. Neil is AABC registered which enables him to work on sensitive Heritage buildings.

Together we can add value to all types of building proposal, being most suited to work throughout Cornwall and the West of England.

We are an established architectural practice specialising in the conservation, repair and alteration of historic buildings and the design of new buildings in historic settings.

Our unique combination of in-house skills and extensive experience creates a dynamic practice. We also work with a network of specialist consultants including structural engineers, quantity surveyors, historic landscape and interpretation experts and archaeologists.

PPIY Architects are a long-established RIBA Chartered architectural practice in the historic City of York, offering highly specialised services to our clients. Our team of Directors and Architects deliver projects of the highest quality in a range of sectors, including community, conservation and heritage, ecclesiastical, residential, education and transport.

Our client portfolio is wide and varied, and each commission is treated with the same value, care and attention it deserves. Because of this it is unsurprising that a lot of our business comes from repeat clients such as Historic England, Network Rail, Church of England, Catholic Church, East Coast rail franchise, North Yorkshire Moors Railway, Methodist Church Circuits and The Quaker organisation.

Our small but highly experienced team means our clients get all the benefits of a personal service, tailored to their individual project needs, while also working with architects who have specialist knowledge and experience. We have the resources to take on large and small projects, and thoroughly enjoy working alongside our Clients to ensure the project we design meet their needs and vision. We offer full scope of works and deliver a comprehensive service including architectural design, building & site surveying and construction health & safety. This allows us to tailor our proposals to provide our clients with the most appropriate service for their project. For every commission, large or small, we provide a service of the highest professional quality. Each project receives the personal attention of one of our Directors, and retains their involvement throughout the life of the project.

PPIY Architects+ are passionate about all aspects of architecture. We approach all jobs studiously to deliver our clients excellent results. When you work with us, you work directly with someone specialised and authoritative in that type of building or project.

An experienced Richmond based practice combining architecture and design, McDaniel Woolf offers a bespoke, personal service, responding to context and need. From historic building conservation to new-build commissions, building renovation to commercial workplace, our work is not simply about styling but captures both the art and science of creativity, delivering spaces, places and environments which surprise and delight.

Introducing McDaniel Woolf - Architecture is about change. Change for the better. At McDaniel Woolf we create places that communicate what our clients feel, who they are and that respond to their needs – be they companies, retailers, the community or individuals.

With a focus on architecture and interior design, we offer a bespoke, personal service, responding to context and needs, rather than imposing a given style. We have a deep understanding of how buildings work and how they can be architecturally refined and enhanced for purpose. We delight in the details, and our love of product, materials and craft shines through in every project. We aim to create seamless spaces where living, working, or experiencing becomes more fulfilling.

We embrace the possibility of change.

Malcolm Fryer Architects are a growing architectural practice offering a unique combination of sensitive contemporary design and historic building expertise.

Under the direction of Malcolm Fryer, the experience of the practice ranges from careful building repairs through to large scale adaptive re-use and master-planning projects.

Our design philosophy is one of seeking creative and flexible yet robust solutions, which respect the significance of existing buildings and their contexts whilst adding a layer of contemporary distinction. The practice seeks to make buildings sustainable in the widest sense, reflecting the needs of users socially and economically as well as environmentally. A ‘Long Life, Loose Fit’ approach is central to this challenge.

The practice has a strong track record of obtaining planning and listed building consents for complex and ambitious historic building projects, and for securing funding sources. Malcolm Fryer has been responsible for designing and delivering award winning buildings for a wide range of private, institutional and ecclesiastical clients.

Whether working alone or in collaborative partnership, the practice values the importance of an integrated team approach to design. A strong client focus recognises the uniqueness of all projects and the need for a tailored approach. Membership of the RIBA and accreditation in historic building conservation (AABC) ensures that the highest standards are maintained at all times.