Heaton House Lofts

The project involves a mixed use redevelopment of the site with part 3, 4 & 5 storey buildings and refurbishment of Heaton House, which dates back to the Jewellery Quarters Georgian pre-industrial age.

The whole development provides 57 dwellings including, 4-bed, 3-bed, 2-bed and 1-bed apartments and houses, plus 4,316sq.ft of commercial floor space for A1, A2, B1(a) and/or D1 uses.

This accommodation is delivered in four parts of the development as follows:

• Restored Old Heaton House
• New build blocks apartments to the Camden Street frontage
• New build Heaton Townhouses to rear courtyards
• New build commercial space to the Powell Street frontage

The four distinct development parts have allowed a clear hierarchy of building form and style to be established for the site within the wider Jewellery Quarter typology of development. Design principles include back of the pavement facades with more elaborate frontages enclosing courts of smaller, simpler forms creating inner spaces arranged perpendicular to the highway.

Within the space created behind the perimeter blocks the courtyards are then arranged around the retained Heaton House. The courtyards are formed to illustrate the evolution of the site around Heaton House from its original open pastoral setting to its entombed consumption by the expanding urban sprawl as the city developed rapidly through the Industrial Revolution and Victorian periods.