SDA Heritage focuses on the recording, restoration, regeneration, and development of historic buildings. We always aspire to have a deep understanding of the places, people, and the context of the buildings we work with to create designs and solutions that are both holistic and sustainable.
Our expertise in conservation pairs perfectly with our ability to design conscientiously, as well as our skills in the surveying of heritage structures. SDA is able to offer a full restoration design service from the initial survey and recording of the historic structure, through to the handover of the building to the client post-construction phase.
Our services within conservation and heritage include the following:
•Dilapidation Surveys
•3D Point Cloud Scanning/ Photogrammetry Surveys
•Full Building Surveys/ Orthographic Drawings
•Artefact Scanning
•Feasibility Studies for uses of historic buildings
•Sketch Designs for redevelopment of historic buildings
•Full Planning Applications and Listed Building Consent Applications
•Heritage Impact Assessments
•Tender Drawings and overseeing Tender process
•Building Regulations Drawings and Applications
•Site Inspections
•Contract Administration
•Building hand-over
For further information on our surveying and scanning services
Heritage and Conservation Services
Doddington Hall Estate
Steven Dunn Architects are delighted to have been working with Doddington Hall since 1996 on various projects within the Estate; These range from residential, commercial, to general repairs and conservation work to the Grade II* Listed Hall Building itself.
Doddington Hall was built between 1593 and 1600, and likely designed by Robert Smythson. The Hall is now open to visitors with a vast array of shops, restaurants, and countryside walks.
Ashby Hall
Ashby Hall was originally built in 1595 and has since undergone numerous changes/additions. After the new owner's acquisition of the property in the early part of 2017, Steven Dunn Architects were assigned as the Architects for the project with the intended brief to revitalise and reinvigorate the derelict site and in essence, restore the hall to its former grade listed self.
Prior to the new tenure, the premises have, for a number of years, suffered from a general lack of maintenance, relating in general to a lack of adequate funding being available to meet the (very substantial indeed) costs of maintaining a property of this type. In addition, over the last 30 or 40 years, the property has been subjected to a series of (often very) insensitive alterations which have severely affected both the character and the fabric of the original Listed building.
Steven Dunn Architects' role within this project include:
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A complete redesign of the Hall's interior
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The introduction of a Grand Hall
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The introduction of an Orangery
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An overall cleaning (and in some cases reconstruction) of the external stone walls
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The management of cleaning the entirety of the lake
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The re-roofing and general refurbishment of the Hall's Stables
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Oversee and specify demolition and construction works
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3D Point Cloud Scanning/ Photogrammetry Surveys
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3D Modelling of the entire Hall from Point Cloud survey to produce drawings and visuals
Osberton Hall
Osberton Hall is an 18th Century country house which was substantially remodelled and extended in the 19th Century. SDA were pleased to be engaged on the existing owners in 2013 to survey the existing building and design a new pool building and garage, and we have been re-approached in 2024 to oversee the re-roofing works to the property.
Washingborough Hall
Washingborough Hall is a Grade II listed building and is currently used as a Hotel. In 2016, SDA were approached by the owner to design a sympathetic and in-keeping extension to provide additional function space and facilities.