2011 12 22 Quorn Stables Extension Designed

The garden room proposals for Quorn Hunt Stables have been completed and submitted for Listed Building Consent. The design features a  large garden-room with exposed structure, patent glazing and large areas of glazing.

The proposals have been developed by the client with support from Charnwood's Conservation Officer.

The Stables have beeen much altered over the recent past and the Borough are keen that this should be done both symmpathetically (matching materials and details for structure, eaves etc) and also where possible to show progression (in that the glazing is contemporary and not striving to match the original stable doors and windows).

The works also include some internal alterations, wall removal and new multi-fuel stoves.

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2011 12 16 Merry Christmas

Our Christmas card for 2011 features Christmas motifs overlaid to form the tree. Very 'notonthehighstreet' .

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2011 12 10 Melton Times Architect Article

Seven in running for business boost

Architect John Fowkes outside the Fox Inn which is to be converted into almhouses

Published on Wednesday 7 December 2011

SEVEN businesspeople with real promise have made the shortlist in a competition to win free advertising in the Melton Times and mentoring from the experts.

Among them is architect John Fowkes of Long Clawson who specialises in converting or refurbishing listed buildings. He has just been appointed to turn the Fox Inn in Leicester Street, Melton, into almshouses.

The seven will now go through a selection process to choose three finalists to take part in the Local Business Accelerators scheme in the new year. The eventual winner will be declared at the Melton Times Business Awards in March.
Locally, the initiative is being supported by the Melton Times, Pera, Melton Chamber of Trade and the Melton BID Company.
Nationally the campaign is supported by the Newspaper Society and backed by Dragons’ Den judge Deborah Meadon. About 3,000 firms applied to take part. For more visit www.accelerateme.co.uk

2011 12 10 Workshops finished

The Holy Cross workshops are finally finished. The building is an L-shaped storage unit for the Convent's cars, tractors and maintenace equipemnt. The south range conatins a workshop for their maintenance staff and a mess room for their gardeners and other labourers. The building also contains storage areas for produce, fuel and garen furniture.

The building is an economical structure built in cavity blockwork with Canadian larch cladding and framing. The windows and doors are painted and stained Douglas fir. The building has deep eaves for swifts and housemartins, and dovecotes at each end are for bird access and the roofs have special bat access tiles on all pitches.

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