Building Consultants & Architects
Our Building Consultants and Architects provide a nationwide service, giving advice on construction, architecture and building related issues such as planning matters, estate maintenance, structural surveys and country house surveys for private owners, estates and the agricultural sector.
Building consultancy and architectural services
Structural and country house surveys
Based on extensive experience of refurbishing country houses, historic and other properties, we are able to report not just on defects and potential defects but also on the optimum methods of repair and improvement, energy saving and VAT implications.
Architecture
Many of our clients who buy or own country properties wish to improve their assets by altering the house to suit their family needs, refurbishing a cottage for overspill accommodation or letting, or creating new facilities such as stabling or garaging. Our team can sympathetically realise their requirements from concept to completion with our specialist architectural services.
Planning, development and architecture
Our architects and surveyors design and obtain planning approval for new build schemes, refurbishment and extension of building types throughout the residential and rural sectors.
Project management
We will work with you from your initial ideas to the handover of the completed project:
bringing the team together, managing the consultants and contractors to realise your requirements.
Property maintenance and conservation
It is essential that all houses and buildings are appropriately and regularly maintained, a leaking gutter one year can be a dry rot attack the next.
We can diagnose and remedy individual defects, devise and implement cyclical maintenance programmes and advise and manage the conservation of historic and listed structures.
Dispute and negotiation consultancy
Our chartered surveyors offer expert advice on claims, party wall and neighbourly issues, landlord and tenant matters or statute.
We strive to offer strong, expert but pragmatic advice helping resolve disputes or negotiations in an economic and timely manner.
Asset consultancy
The alternative use of traditional or modern agricultural and estate buildings offers opportunities to increase asset value, income or increase efficiency.
We specialise in the conversion of buildings to both residential holiday and commercial uses.
Insurance valuations and claims
We provide insurance valuations on individual properties or portfolios, advice on first loss cover, liability, excesses and listed buildings. We will negotiate claims with loss adjusters and manage the implementation of the remedial works.
Our understanding of residential and rural architecture with experience managing projects across the rural economy means we can help with the house, walled garden or farm yard.
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