Private Residence, Montpelier Conservation Area

Sector: Residential
Service: Project Management

Client: Private Residence

Project: Critical Repairs & Refurbishment

Contract: £160,000

This privately owned property is a grade 2 listed building situated within the Montpelier conservation area of Bristol. The client was a domestic resident who wanted to undertake a number of necessary repairs whilst also preserving the conservation of the building.

Hookway were appointed to design a solution and manage the project. Following a detailed survey of the property, a specification was compiled for the required repairs and improvements to the fabric of the building, including:

• Renewal of felt underslating and timber battens, with existing tiles reused
• Removal of fibreglass roofs to dormer windows and reinstating with specialist leadwork back to its original construction
• Insulating roof space and dormer cheeks
• Critical and expansive timber repairs to roof structure
• Critical ashlar stone repairs to front and rear elevations
• Repairs to chimney stacks
• Renewal of all leadwork throughout roof
• Repairs & refurbishments to all timber sash windows
• Internal decorations including structural timber repairs
• Asbestos removal using a licenced asbestos removal contractor.

Complete Project Management & Design Expertise

Hookway were trusted to manage the full design and installation process on this project, ensuring that all works were undertaken in a sensitive manor that respected the listed status of the building.

Our involvement included the following:

• Design, Planning & Management of whole project
• Survey of building to ascertain its condition. This included initial opening up works throughout the property to assess the extent of damage caused by years of leaks and consequential deterioration
• Creating bespoke specification of requirements based on information gathered during survey.