Castle, Lincolnshire

We have been working on this multi-phase and award-winning project since late 2012. Our work was written up in Country Life in 2023, describing the result as “an exemplary essay in how to transform the jumbled remains of a complex and ancient building into a coherent contemporary house”.

When we first visited the castle was Priority A (the most endangered category) on the Heritage At Risk Register. It is now happily off the register. Following a number of successful Planning and Listed Building Consent Applications and applications for Scheduled Monument Consent, we have worked across the site on all buildings. Works are now drawing to a close.

The project has included:

– a new wing which we have added to the main inhabited Grade 1 listed building

– full repairs and refurbishment

– a re-instated three storey spiral stone staircase to serve the thirteenth century tower rooms

– major repairs to two ruinous towers

– a new cloister

– extensive landscaping

– repairs and conversion of barns and outbuildings, including a new recording studio

– a solar-panel roofed energy centre