Loft Conversions in Stratford-upon-Avon, priced in writing before anything starts.
Lofts in Stratford divide sharply between historic buildings, where the roof is part of what is protected, and modern housing, where a conversion is routine.
In a timber framed or historic building the roof structure is frequently original fabric, and in a listed building it is covered by the listing. That does not rule a conversion out, but it does mean the design works around the historic timbers rather than cutting through them, and that any new structure is introduced in a way that could in principle be reversed. It is a design problem with good answers and it is emphatically not a job to price from the pavement.
Head height in older buildings is the other early question, and it is frequently the one that ends the conversation. These roofs were not built for standing room, and we measure at the quotation rather than after.
On the modern housing out towards Shottery and Tiddington the roofs are trussed, which means the structure gets reworked rather than strengthened. Routine work for us and not the same job or the same price as a cut roof.
The permitted development volume allowance is forty cubic metres on a terrace and fifty on a semi or detached house. A dormer facing the road is not permitted development anywhere, and in Stratford’s conservation areas anything altering the roofline the street can see will be examined very closely indeed. Our loft conversion page goes through the structural options.
Four things we commit to on every job, rather than four things we say about ourselves.
Permitted development is not an exemption from Building Regulations. We arrange the Stratford-on-Avon District Council inspections, meet the inspector on site at each stage and see the work through to sign off. We do not make the application itself, and we will tell you what is needed and when.
Free, and you get it before you commit to us. Party walls and skip licences are raised at quotation stage, not three weeks into the dig.
The same people do the groundworks, the brickwork and the fit out. Nobody hands your job to a subcontractor you have never met.
You get a straight answer rather than a padded price. It costs us a job occasionally and saves you a great deal more.
Process, specification and what moves the price are set out on our loft conversions page.
The answers that genuinely differ from one Stratford-upon-Avon street to the next.
On a listed building even a rooflight is a consent matter, and the type and position will be looked at rather than accepted. We establish that before a drawing is commissioned rather than after.
Where new floor beams bear onto a wall shared with a neighbour the work is notifiable under the Party Wall Act, and in the historic core, where buildings sit hard against each other, that applies more often than not.
Steels that will not go up the stairs come in through the roof, needing a lift and a part day road closure. In a town centre with heavy pedestrian traffic that takes real arranging and it goes in the price rather than appearing later.
Part of our wider building work in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Send photographs and a rough brief, or call and talk it through. We will tell you if a job is not right for us.
Southfield Construction (Rugby) Ltd, registered in England and Wales, company 14209138.
