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Prenton Road East

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Prenton Road East, Prenton

Design House is situated in the heart of Liverpool’s business district, just off Old Hall Street which had been vacant since 2016 and was previously used as a Leisure Club. The building sits within the Castle Street Conservation Area and so the development works had to be sensitive to the area and in keeping with the council planning constraints.

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This building was originally part of the American embassy complex before it was knocked down in 1902 to make way for a branch of the Mersey Tunnel which runs directly under the site. The new building was built around 1912 when it appears again on the Gore’s Directory. In its new form it was a cotton warehouse, brewery, leather goods shop and a design studio for Littlewood’s catalogue.

Overview

  • Electrical installation

  • Plumbing installation

  • Drylining

  • Bathrooms

  • Joinery Package

  • Kitchens

  • Joinery Package

  • Flooring

  • Decoration

  • Communal fire alarm and emergency lighting

  • Window Replacement

  • Roofing Repair

  • Landscaping

  • Micro Piling and underpinning

  • Structural Strengthening

  • Construction of new extension

  • Exterior painting

  • Brick Restoration

  • Obtained all compliance paperwork for the client prior to occupation by end users

The building was originally a Victorian semi-detached Villa constructed in approximately 1840.  The property was structurally unsound as it had been poorly developed by the previous owner, as a result the building suffered from several structural weaknesses around apertures that had been created to accommodate new windows and doors as well as changing the layout of the building.

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The resulting structural defects meant that the gable and rear elevations had moved considerably and needed to be secured and micro piled to ensure that the building didn’t collapse. The roof had approximately 20% missing and as a result had serious water ingress and a vermin infestation within the roof space and upper floors of the building.

The building was pebble dashed to the side and rear which didn’t keep with the aesthetic the client required and was used to hide all the adaptions the building had gone through over the years.

 

We removed the render, repaired the brickwork and even had the brick colour matched so we could include the detailed courses of the original building that were missing. We then proceeded to have the building sand blasted to complete the look and make it match the front elevation. 

Overview

  • Composition: 4no. Apartments

  • Project Type: Heavy Refurbishment

  • Package: Turn-key

  • Duration: 3 months

  • Cost: £120,000

  • GDV: £420,000

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