Restoration of Bruntingthorpe Manor House

This was an eight-bed typical Georgian farmhouse that is grade 2 listed and was in very poor condition.

Set in about five acres with a couple of ponds. Over the past few years, the manor house had been used a bed and breakfast establishment and they had squeezed en-suite bathrooms into the existing rooms.

The new owner had commissioned an architect to redesign the house and utilize the existing garage and garden walls to form new garaging, a kitchen, utility room conservatory and a link to connect them together.

The eight bedroom layout was changed into four large bedrooms, each with a luxury en-suite bathroom, dressing area and private living area.

The other areas consist of a snug, open plan hall areas, study, gym, steam room, and cloakroom.
Throughout the project we reused as much of the existing fabrics as possible and, in many cases, remade new to match existing. We made new oak trusses to support the new kitchen roof and created oak frames to form the new link and conservatory with an oak and glass roof.

We used underfloor heating on all of the ground floor areas, some of which are new oak flooring and lime stone to the remainder.

The 1st and 2nd floor has conventional radiators. The house was then finished in a selection of period paint colours.

The outside of the house was landscaped using a mixture of paving gravel and planted areas and lawn.