Track Record/Other Locations

Outside London/Planning Consent/Private Client/Residential/ Planning Win in Wokingham

HEAT have won planning permission for a spacious kitchen/dining extension to a country house from Wokingham Borough Council. The substantial C19th house, nestled in a bend of the river Thames was surrounded on three sides by rolling grounds, but nevertheless faced towards the road on the fourth side. The new design cleverly re-orients the entire house so that it relates to the garden and incorporates a new extension. By breaking up the roofline and creating a lofty extension with roof planes that match the existing house the planning impact of the development is mitigated and the house becomes suitable for a large family.

Project 202

Won/04.07.22

Overseas/Private Client/Residential/ A Country House in Portugal

A client for whom we have done a lot of work in London was looking for a home in Portugal. HEAT found this wonderful farmhouse near Loulé in the Algarve which required renovation. Traditionally in Portugal stone was plentiful – often just picked up from the land around the house, but timber was another matter, and this limited the size of roof span. Country houses were often built as a simple row of rooms – and when the family needed more space they would add another room to the row.

At over 100m long and just 5m deep, we nicknamed this house “Casa Longa” and the reconstruction went back to the bare stone walls. The external appearance remains traditionally Algarvian, but the interior is beautifully simple and has the feel of a gallery with huge ceramic tiles on the floor and art lit by natural light. Our client has a fantastic eye for landscaping and designed the outdoor spaces to evolve gradually into the fields around. It is a stunning setting for a completely unique house.

Contact us at HEAT if you are looking for your perfect Portuguese property.

Project 196

Won/01.05.22

Education/Listed Building/Outside London/ History Centre Listed Building Consent

Pershore Council in Worcestershire have decided to turn this redundant cottage in the grounds of the Cemetery into a Family History Centre and research centre. HEAT have won Planning and Listed Building Consent to redevelop the cottage adding a new glazed link building with WC and Catering facilities. The new wing will feature a frameless glazed roof and solid ledged and braced oak doors.

Project 174

Won/16.09.15

New Build/Outside London/ Country Pool House

HEAT have developed a stunning scheme for a pool and poolhouse in the Buckinghamshire countryside. In the steeply sloping grounds of a recently built house, our scheme comprises two curving stone walls which nestle into the hillside and conceal a family room and other facilities and a South-facing pool, protected from the weather. Conceived with landscape designer Matthew Wilson, the project uses local stone and native planting to fit within the landscape.

Project 170

Won/25.05.15

Listed Building/Outside London/ Is that enough chimneys yet?

There had been planning enforcement threatened on this beautiful Grade II listed site near Horsham due to the previous owner’s development. HEAT obtained retrospective planning and listed building consent, and devised a scheme to integrate a C17th Hunting Lodge, a Victorian cottage and a new extension into a new family home; all in the South Downs National Park. The cellar of the hunting lodge had a stream running through it. The cold water ran through stone culverts in the floor and kept the cellar cool. C17th Air conditioning.

Project 146

Won/15.09.13

Outside London/ Country House in Taplow

Like many country estates this detached late Victorian house with wonderful views over the Thames Valley had been extended and modified from fairly modest beginnings and as a consequence, the rooms were not quite in the right place and the circulation was awkward. The solution involved some subtle tweaks to the layout; closing some openings and forming others; turning the servants’ staircase round and re-thinking the outdoor space around the house.

Typically in the past, kitchens used to be stuck away at the back of the house, so we swept away some smaller rooms and partitions and created a new family dining room and kitchen that links front and back with French doors out onto the terrace and those sweeping views.

HEAT obtained planning consent from South Bucks District Council for a side extension that consolidated many years’ accretion of outbuildings into a new staff flat.

Project 166

Won/01.06.13

Listed Building/Outside London/ Country House Extension

Sometimes it is only necessary to make small changes to a layout to unlock the plan. In this beautiful detached Regency house in Berkshire we were able to rearrange some of the circulation routes and internal walls and create a free flowing plan that brought every room into use and made it possible to come up with great furniture arrangements.

An internal lift and a glazed breakfast room extension completed the scheme which was granted planning consent by Wokingham Borough Council.

Project 151

Won/25.04.12

Listed Building/Outside London/ Arts and Crafts House in Surrey

HEAT have obtained planning and listed building consent for new dormer windows and an attic conversion at this charming listed country house near Godalming. Built by Ernest Newton in 1911 in a blend of modernism and Arts and Crafts, we researched the correspondence with the architect and builders from when the house was built and tracked down the original suppliers of the roof tiles and the windows in nearby Haslemere commissioning replicas so that the new interventions blend seamlessly with the original.

Project 125

Won/10.04.10

Developer/New Build/Overseas/ Ski Club

HEAT have been working with ALEF Architects to produce plans for a ski resort hotel North of Moscow including landscaping. The resort includes 40,000 sq ft of restaurants, club rooms, a health spa and the design consists of a series of volumes arranged around an arc with full glazing facing towards the landscape and views.

Project 130

Won/25.06.09

Listed Building/Outside London/ Listed House refurbishment

HEAT have gained planning and listed building consent for the refurbishment of an Arts and Crafts house in Surrey. The house was built with a servants’ wing that had been largely unchanged for a hundred years and this project was to update and restore this wing creating a comfortable five bedroom family home, whilst keeping the detail and feeling of the original design.

Project 087

Won/05.08.08

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