Small practice · extensions, conversions, new build

Drawings you can build from.

Two architects, about fifteen projects a year, mostly houses. We'd rather do a good extension than a bad landmark.

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Recent projects

Rear extension, terraced house

Conservation area · permitted development refused, granted on appeal · £96k build

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Barn conversion

Class Q · structural survey drove the whole layout · £310k build

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Two-storey side return

Party wall on both sides · built in 22 weeks · £145k build

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Build costs are the client's actual spend, not an estimate. Swap these for your own — and put the awkward ones in.

How a project runs

Feasibility

Two or three options, sketched. Enough to know whether it's worth going on, and cheap enough to stop.

Planning

Drawings, forms, and the application. Eight to thirteen weeks with the council after that.

Technical design

Building regulations, structure, and the details a builder needs to price properly.

Tender

Three builders, same drawings, comparable prices. This is where the fee pays for itself.

On site

Fortnightly visits, valuations, and someone in your corner when something is found behind a wall.

Fees

Feasibility

$1,200 fixed

Measured survey of what's there
Two or three options
A realistic build-cost range
Deducted if you go on

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To planning

$4,500 fixed

Full drawing set
Application submitted and managed
One revision after officer feedback
Council fee paid separately

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Full service

8–11% of build cost

Everything through to completion
Technical design and tender
Site visits and valuations
Staged monthly, never up front

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Structural engineer, surveys and the council's own fees are extra and quoted at cost — we don't mark them up.

What we control, and what we don't

Planning permission — The council decides. We can advise on the odds and appeal a refusal, never promise a result
Build cost — Your builder's price, and the market's. We design to a budget and tell you when a drawing has drifted
Programme — The council's clock, then the builder's. Ours is the only part we can hold to a date
Neighbours — Party wall is a legal process with its own surveyor. We'll explain it early because it is slow
What we do control — The drawings, the information the builder prices from, and telling you the truth in month one

Any architect who guarantees you planning permission is telling you something they cannot know.

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The budget question is the useful one. We can design almost anything; we can only design something you can afford to build.

The studio

Second floor, 14 Drawing Office Lane, Kingsgate

Monday: 09:00 – 17:30
Tuesday: 09:00 – 17:30
Wednesday: 09:00 – 17:30
Thursday: 09:00 – 17:30
Friday: 09:00 – 16:00
Saturday: Closed
Sunday: Closed

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First conversations happen at your property, not here — we need to see it, and you shouldn't have to describe a wall over the phone.

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