We are honured that the Star Inn At Harome has been selected as a AABC Conservation Award regional finalist in the Civic Trust Awards 2025.
The Grade II Listed Star Inn, which suffered extensive fire damage in November 2021, was restored using traditional materials and techniques. The Inn reopeded one year after the fire.
The Civic Trust Awards Ceremony 2025 will take place in March 2025.
It’s an honour to have been selected as a finalist for Creative Conservation category at the BuildingDesign, Architect of the Year Awards 2024. Huge congratulations to all the other talented finalists and we look forward to the winners being announced in October.
The projects demonstrate our considered approach to heritage work, but also the respect and value we have for existing buildings and the importance that they play in context with sustainability. Thank you to all our amazing friends, clients and collaborators who we have worked with on these wonderful projects!
We have recently submitted for planning approval and listed building consent for a Grade II Listed dwelling in York. The dwelling is the former one-time home of Terry’s Chocolate legend Noel Goddard Terry and the proposals are featured in the Architect Journal.
We are delighted that the St Gemma's Young Person's Space has been shortlisted for the healthcare project of the year at the structural timber awards 2023. Best of luck to all the finalists.
We are delighted that The Homestead won a York Design Award for best residential single dwellings. Congratulations to all the other winners from the night.
We are delighted that Crimple Hall has been shortlisted for a 2023 RIBA Yorkshire Award!
The artisan farmers market and restaurant is located on the outskirts of Harrogate in North Yorkshire. The distinctive saw-tooth form relates strongly to the highly sustainable design approach and the spatial requirements of the brief allowing a combination of north lights and, PV cells to reduce the need for mechanical services and energy input generally.
Thank you to our fantastic client @crimpleharrogate and the design team for delivering such a fantastic end product.
Congratulations to all the shortlisted schemes and wishing you the best of luck!
Crimple Hall has been featured in Decembers RIBA Journal Article;
Our Clayworth House project is to feature on Grand Designs on Wednesday 5th October. We are looking forward to watching the episode with our amazing client and the team.
We’re thrilled that Kate has recently become appointed architect for St. Philips, Osmondthorpe.
St. Philips dates from 1932 and though it outwardly appears conventional to the surrounding houses, in red brick, its structure is formed by impressive parabolic arches of concrete construction.
We greatly look forward to working with the new incumbent vicar, the team and community at St. Philips and The Diocese of Leeds moving forward.
Our scheme for 78 homes on green-belt site in Leeds is featured in the Architects Journal. The brief was to create a contextual response that establishes a high-quality neighbourhood extension in which design excellence, landscape and neighbourhood are placed top of the agenda.
The development would be a departure from conventional house-building, instead, looking to the future and setting the scheme up for a higher standard of design and space by allowing for high proportions of first homes, potential for modular builds, community homes, almshouse and for self-build housing.
The self-build plots will offer flexibility for delivery within the masterplan. These are offered on the periphery of the site to enable more flexibility in the delivery process, but also design-wise they can adopt a more relaxed approach to design, yet still respecting the materiality of the adjacent dwellings. Both affordable and market housing are mixed evenly within the masterplan.
We are delighted that The Old School has made the 20-strong longlist for the RIBA House of the Year. Best of luck to all the other practices.
We are delighted that The Old School has been featured in Listed Heritage magazine.
Our reconfigured and extended Grade II Listed building is a contempoary addition to a beautiful and historic property, sitatued in both a Conservation Area and Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The project has also been shortlisted for a regional RIBA award.
Yesterday, James and Graham took part in the RIBA Yorkshire Symposium. Sharing their journey to becoming architects, the successes and challenges of having your own practice and looking at past and present projects that ArkleBoyce are currently working on.
We are delighted that our sensitive design to create a new farm shop, tea room / café in close proximity to the Grade I Listed Ote Hall in East Sussex has been featured in the Architects’ Journal. The plans include a linking building that connects to the existing Ote Hall Farm, extending the farmyard and through a cluster of rural buildings. Architecturally, the design has been inspired by the site’s agricultural character and lies low in the landscape with simple pitched roofs. The full article can be found here
We are delighted that our design to create a rural family home set within the Yorkshire Dales has been published in the Architects’ Journal. Our proposal took cues from West Yorkshire’s landscape of converted farmhouses, agricultural buildings and farmland. The full article can be found here
We are delighted that The Old School has been featured in Yorkshire Life this month.
Our reconfigured and extended Grade II Listed building is a contempoary addition to a beautiful and historic property, sitatued in both a Conservation Area and Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The project has also been shortlisted for a regional RIBA award.
We are delighted to provide details of a residential scheme that has recently been submitted for planning approval. The scheme in rural Hertfordshire repurposes an existing classic car workshop to form a single courtyard dwelling. This re-use of an existing building is a less carbon hungry option for residential development, and a sustainable approach to resurrecting old buildings in innovative new ways.
The in-ward looking development, made up ofwhat was a cluster of workshops, provides living accommodation around a private landscaped courtyard, with wildflower planters and minimalist water features; whilst timber louvres help provide an element of shading and privacy. The connection between existing volumes make use of a glass and concrete link that articulates a clear language between new and old.
As always a pleasure working alongside our talented friends bidwellsllp and thank you to the wonderful darcstudio for the beautiful imagery.
We are delighted that our sensitive alteration and extension of a historic property in Harrogate has been published as part of a new AJ campaign, Retrofirst stories. Our proposal aimed to retain the historic, angular form of the residential property. Providing a new, lightweight entrance lobby that was crucial for the success of the overall scheme, freeing up space in the main house and giving it a new lease of life. The full article can be found here
We are delighted and humbled that The Old School has been shortlisted for the RIBA Yorkshire Awards 2020.
Our reconfigured and extended Grade II Listed building is a contempoary addition to a beautiful and historic property, sitatued in both a Conservation Area and Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
We are delighted to have our newly proposed holiday flats have been mentioned in the Architects Journal. The 237m² building is based in York's central conservation area and should be due to start on site this May (2020) subject to apporval by City of York Council.
We are delighted to have secured unanimous approval at planning committee for our reserved matters application for a new headquarters building with our wonderful client Autohorn. The 45,000 sqft building is sited on a green belt site on the outskirts of York and our contextual design of angled brick parapet picks up on the varying roof forms of the surrounding buildings visible against the skyline; but also makes reference to the historic airfield site.
The building has excellent environmental credentials with photovoltaic panels that cover the rear, south facing, face of each of the twenty northlights, which form an ideal surface for hosting them. The entire array is calculated to produce 102,000kWh of electricity per annum, or approximately 65% of building’s total annual regulated energy use. This on site generation will also be used by Autohorn as electric vehicles become an increasing part of its fleet. A high performance building fabric and heat recovery systems ensure that the energy used within the building is conserved. Combined, these energy conservation measures result in the design-stage building using 1/3 the energy of the Part L notional building (6.8kgCO2/m2/year vs. 20.6); and the all-electric design means that the carbon produced by energy used in the building’s operation will be reduced as the national grid is gradually decarbonised.
We are delighted to submit the planning application for the reconfiguration of an existing farmhouse and conversion of adjacent barns to form a new contemporary dwelling in the Yorkshire countryside.
We are delighted that our scheme of 14 houses with landscaped public space for Gade Homes was granted planning approval last night at Hertsmere Borough Councils planning committee meeting.
We are delighted to have our artisan farmers' market and restaurant featured in the Architects Journal. The 2,500m² building next to an existing garden centre on the outskirts of Harrogate, North Yorkshire was submitted for planning this week.
We’re thrilled that our proposals for the conversion and restoration of a long neglected, but characterful, former agricultural small holding in a rural area of the East Riding of Yorkshire has received unanimous approval at Planning Committee!
Situated in the heritage coast area, the site will provide eight new homes, 6 conversion and 2 sensitive new-build properties, in this desirable and welcoming area and, through conservation and landscaping works, will provide a pleasing ‘gateway’ to the village beyond.
We are delighted to attend a public consultation for our exciting proposals for Crimple Hall in Harrogate. The scheme created a new artisan famers market which will sit alongside the existing garden centre. The site is well known for a range of retail and garden centre uses at present, and the owner approached ArkleBoyce Architects to consider plans for a new building to house a large farmers market style foodhall and associated restaurant.
The building itself is designed to create a new destination for people in the area whilst sitting comfortably within its picturesque ‘edge of town’ location. The building has a highly sustainable agenda which has driven the distinctive saw-tooth roof form to allow for natural ventilation and a north-lit food hall to create a visually dramatic space to spend time in.
The building will be wrapped in vertical timber cladding which will weather over time to create a building which sits politely the surroundings of Crimple Valley.
We are absolutely delighted that our accessible one-off house in York’s historic conservation area has today gained planning permission. The house is designed over four floors and creates a contemporary infill, stitching back together the streetscape. We look forward to working with our wonderful client to deliver the scheme over the coming months.
We’re thrilled to see external stabilising and repair works progressing on our latest private residential project in central London. This beautiful Beaux-Arts building, designed by architect Amos Faulkner in the early 1900s, had suffered deterioration of its detailed Grade II Listed fabric following a period of un-occupancy spanning over ten years. Skilled trades are now on site cleaning and repairing stone work and replacing the ornate leadwork to help restore this impressive property to its former glories.
We are delighted that our extension and reconfiguration of a 1970s bungalow was featured in The Yorkshire Post this weekend. The full article can be viewed on https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/analysis/on-the-level-it-s-bungalow-bliss-1-9494617
We are delighted to announce that our redevelopment of Woodthorpe Lodge in Sandal, Wakefield has been granted planning permission.
This sensitive project clears the original Victorian mansion, a non-designated heritage asset, of insensitive later additions and restores it’s interior to form three new dwellings. Formally simple, contemporary extensions defer to the existing building, using the proportions of existing bay windows to define elements of their form.
Three new-build dwellings negotiate the site’s complex topography and existing trees to create a new settlement within the grounds of the original house. Each house was designed individually, responding to a specific siting within the grounds.
The unique setting of each renovation or new-build dwelling addresses a different area of mature woodland, each with its own character.
We are delighted that our proposals for a new build dwelling in the centre of York's conservation are has been submitted for planning and featured in the AJ.
We are delighted that our proposals for a new cricket pavilion at York Sports Club have been granted planning permission. We are looking forward to the scheme being delivered in 2019!
Lovely to see Spenfield Court in the Yorkshire Post. We are working as delivery architects for a series of new build homes on the scheme designed by Pearce Bottomley Architects. Great to be involved in such a great project in the grounds of the Grade II Listed Spenfield House.
We are delighted to have our latest design for a small development of low carbon homes featured in the Architects Journal today. In partnership with our ambitious client, Purehaus, we hope to deliver a refreshing approach to environmentally friendly residential design through utilising responsibly sourced materials, and low carbon construction principles without compromising on architectural quality.
We are delighted to have submitted proposals for a sensitive residential scheme of bespoke contemporary dwellings in the grounds of Woodthorpe Lodge in Sandal, a non-designated heritage asset. The scheme converts and extends the existing Woodthorpe Lodge into three dwellings, with the construction of three new detached dwellings in its grounds.
We’re very happy to see our recent commercial, fit-out project in the London Bridge area reach completion this week.
The ex-industrial Victorian building, a stones throw from London’s Borough Market, has been reconfigured and refurbished to provide office spaces for our client at the upper level, in addition to lettable space, at ground floor, and shared meeting rooms to basement level. This has included the insertion of a new, bespoke designed, steel-staircase and a series of glazed screens to better access and delineate spaces as well as the provision of new kitchen, bathroom and ancillary space.
Further information will be coming to our project page soon!
We are thrilled to have obtained planning approval for our proposals for two new-build, detached, Yorkshire stone dwellings in a semi-rural location at the edge of the Rawdon village in the Wharfe Valley.
Our proposal looks to develop a neglected former car sales site, which occupies a corner of the (adopted) Green Belt at the northern periphery of the village, facing the Little London Conservation Area and at the boundary of both Leeds and Bradford City Districts, in order to create a neater and more sympathetic fringe to the villagescape whilst providing two new, high quality homes.
Further to the recent completion of reception works we are delighted that our reconfiguration of the external façade of 76 Wellington Street has been granted planning approval by Leeds Council
Our remodelling of an existing bungalow on a corner plot in a suburban setting. We sought to develop a scheme that demolished the existing unsightly flat roof additions to the bungalow. The proposal were to create a simple linear pitched roof form that dynamically opens up to create a private south facing courtyard garden creating indoor/outdoor living space for the young family to enjoy.
Our Sevenoaks Nature and Wellbeing Visitor Centre shortlisted scheme has been published. The submissions remain anonymous. Good luck to all involved!
We are delighted that our proposals for the Grass Roots (Organic) Garden Centre in the heart of the North Yorkshire countryside has gained planning approval. The new facilities will provide cafe and retail space as the first phase of the centre's redevelopment works. We're looking forward to working on the next phases with Grass Roots
We are very happy to begin work on proposals for the restoration and renovation of a characterful Beaux-Arts property, with handsome proportions, on a prominent corner plot within the heart of Marylebone. Our proposals look to sensitively restore and reinvigorate the Grade II listed, architectural fabric to its former glories whilst simultaneously and sensitively providing desirable accommodations and modern day family living space within the rich architectural context of the Howard de Walden Estate.
We are delighted to have been named as one of the four practices shortlisted on behalf of the Kent Wildlife Trust for the competition to design a new visitor centre for Sevenoaks Wildlife Reserve in Kent which will be a flagship visitor centre offering key messaging around nature, health and wellbeing. Really looking forward to progressing the design through the next stages. Congratulations to the other shortlisted practices.
We're delighted to have submitted planning for a new build residential scheme within a conservation area, and on the fringe of the green belt, in a Yorkshire village. The simple massing and form responds to the local vernacular whilst creating a contemporary rural language of glass, stone and slate.
We are delighted to be working with Shortgrove Developments on the conversion of an old school house to create 10 contemporary duplex apartments
Delighted to see our outline scheme for 100 homes in Grantham has been featured in the Architects Journal.
Thank you to all our collaborators for their input including, Urban Wilderness, Curtins and Forbes Massie.
