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Bluecoats Avenue — Heritage-led · Hertfordshire
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Bluecoats Avenue

Heritage-led · Hertfordshire

A heritage-led residential conversion delivering nineteen apartments — new life drawn from a historic building, with its character intact.

Bluecoats Avenue is a heritage-led conversion that proves new life need not erase character. Nineteen apartments were drawn from a historic building with its identity intact — plan, proportion and materiality read as continuity, not pastiche.

The work balanced viability with restraint: understanding what the building could absorb, what the listing would permit, and how domestic life could inhabit historic rooms without domesticating them.

Bluecoats Avenue — plan
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