Evans Vettori were commissioned to lead a team of consultants to prepare Management Plans for the repair and reinstatement of several barns within the Peak District National Park, including for the Haddon Estate. The work comprised careful recording of the existing barns, from a heritage, architectural, structural and ecological point of view, alongside a detailed methodology & Schedule of Works, to enable funding to be secured. Evans Vettori then also coordinated the tender process and oversaw the works on site, which have brought these historic barns back into serviceable use.
Repair & reinstatement of 3 grade 2 listed cottages, to bring them from a state of disrepair into habitable, affordable housing for employees of John Smedley Ltd. The works comprised extensive repair to the fabric of the cottages, using appropriately specified materials to a high level of workmanship. Bathrooms were installed to bring the cottages into viable 21st Century use. These are generally found within the rear 'lean-to' in order to preserve the historic plan. Care was taken to replace items to match existing, wherever possible and practical. This has resulted in reinstatement of leaded lights, sliding sash windows and cast iron gutter brackets - all hand made by local craftsmen.
Dove House is an extension adjacent to a Grade 2* Listed care home in Ashbourne, originally dating from the early 18th Century. The sits within a void created through the excavation of an unusable slope, and provides 4 new en-suite ‘garden rooms’, which open directly onto the grounds of the house. A new pitched-roof lounge improves the facilities of the home generally and enables the existing internal layout to be reordered. The scheme looks to improve access generally around the site, as levels are rationalised. The flat roof of the new extension is landscaped as a garden terrace, which enhances the existing ‘garden rooms’, dating from the 1970s.
Owned by the Peak District National Park, Hobcroft Barn located in the Warslow Moors was built in the early half of the 19th century. It represents one of a number of isolated field barns, typical of the area.
The large, traditional two-storey field barn reflects local geology with limestone and gritstone walls, gritstone and sandstone quoins, as well as Staffordshire blue tiles. Inside the barn, there are stalls for cattle (boosts) with hay lofts over them.
The barn’s restoration was completed in September 2021. We were able to repair and restore many of the barn’s original fixtures and features, through funding from the Farming in Protected Landscapes grant scheme.
The Grade II Listed Minninglow Lime Kiln was built in the early 19th century, circa 1828-1830, nearby to Minninglow Hill. The limekiln sits within a rolling agricultural landscape and at the southern end of a significant stone built embankment built to carry the High Peak Railway. The Lime Kiln was built to supply the Cromford and High Peak Railway (completed in 1831), where it cuts into the hillside adjacent to what is now known as the Tissington Trail.
In December 2019, there was a partial collapse of the retaining front section of the kiln. The scheme became the sensitive repair and total reconstruction of this historic limekiln, in order to secure its longevity within the local, rural landscape. Reinstatement was replicated as near to pre-December 2019 arrangement as possible from available evidence collected.
To finance the project, the landowner sought grant-aid from the ‘Farming in Protected Landscapes (FiPL)’ funding scheme. Assistance with the grant application and associated administration of the successful grant award was provided by Peak District National Park Authority (PDNPA).
