RESTORATION

The Baths of Antonius Pius, 
Carthage, Tunisia
. 
Blenheim, Oxfordshire.

Painshill Park, Surrey   

Hawkstone Park, Shropshire

Lama Tree Gardens, Dorset

Calke Abbey, Leicestershire

Gibside Park, Durham

Biddulph Grange, Staffordshire

Dinefwr Park, Dyfed

Wotton Park, Buckinghamshire

Kynance Cove, Cornwall

Box Hill, Surrey

We directed the restoration of the grade I historic park of Hawkstone in Shropshire working with the landscape architect Simon Walding and the architects Oliver West and John Scott which won both Civic Trust and Europa Nostra awards for both the restoration work and new build restaurant and visitor centre. This 19th century park used the dramatic outcrops of red sandstone to combine bridges, follies, a grotto, and monument to create a much-visited ‘sublime’ landscape.

The restoration, which took place after considerable public consultation and engagement, needed the restoration of a complex public access system involving steps cut in the rock, frightful leaps over vertiginous falls and the replanting of darkly disturbing shrubberies and pinneries.

The project, necessitating considerable historic research, involved the use of traditional and replica construction techniques, modern repair and construction techniques applied both to new and historic fabric, specialist conservation/construction techniques (lime plasters, brickwork and stonework in lime mortar, reproduction joinery...), special manufacture of components to match original details and specialist artists, subcontractors and consultants.