Heritage, brought into the light.
A selection of listed and historic buildings — restored, reordered and given new life. Monochrome at rest; colour revealed through the lens.
Sacombe House
Grade II* · HertfordshireA Grade II* country house, read through its Georgian and Edwardian layers — a continuing programme of masonry repair, roof design and adaptation, with Giles involved since 2018.
Cintra House
Grade II · CambridgeA Victorian stucco front with a 1970s office behind it. A clear map of what mattered allowed the front and roofline to be restored and the rest to be rethought.
Adare Manor
NIAH National · IrelandStone package and services integration for a new ballroom, within Reardon Smith Architects' redevelopment of a Neo-Gothic estate in County Limerick.
Bluecoats House
Grade II · HertfordA schoolmaster's house for Christ's Hospital, read through three centuries and returned to use.
The Archduke's Alpine hunting lodge
Protected monument · AustriaSupervising Architect to the Frederick R. Koch Foundation for a four-hundred-year-old hunting seat remodelled for Archduke Franz Ferdinand — lifts, chapel repairs and new uses, designed to touch the fabric lightly.
Old Posingford Farmhouse
Grade II · High Weald, East SussexA Wealden farmhouse and the barn beside it, built from the bricks of an older building — read wall by wall, and proposed for its next life as warm, dry rooms for the family.
Selected private commissions, shown with permission. Locations are given obliquely; full details are shared in confidence on enquiry.
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