HelloWe are award winning architects with extensive experience in a wide ranging portfolio of health, education, commercial and conservation work in urban, country and historic settings with offices in Castle Eden, County Durham and design studios in the North Yorks Moors.
Latest Projects
Tyne to Tees, Shores and Seas. The SeaScapes Partnership.4th June 2020
Seascapes is a Heritage Coast Partnership, with National Lottery Heritage Funding to develop the UK’s first marine Landscape Partnership scheme. The Partnership is made up of local, regional and national partners that work in the coastal, marine and heritage sectors. The purpose of the initiative is to increase the value of the seascape between the […]
Repairs to St Cuthbert, Peterlee4th June 2020
One of our favourite churches in the Durham Diocese is St Cuthbert’s at Peterlee. We carry out its Quinquennial Inspections and have been managing repairs. It’s a lovely, modern church (designed by Donald McIntyre FRIBA whilst with the firm of Cordingley & McIntyre and built in 1957) and it’s a complete composition from the inclusive […]
New Servery and accessible wc at St Romald, Romaldkirk14th May 2020
At the Grade I church of St Romald at Romaldkirk, Co Durham, we were asked to design facilities that would enhance the church’s mission and improve the visitor experience. A servery and accessible wc was seen as the best way to provide much needed facilities. The project had been in gestation for many years and […]
Fulwell Sound Mirror14th May 2020
The Fulwell Sound Mirror is a Scheduled Monument and Grade II listed military installation. It is a long lost reminder of the WWI home front in the North East. Overgrown with brambles and trees, half submerged in landfill and deteriorating, its purpose shrouded in mystery and almost lost to the folk memory of the generations […]
Latest News
Hylton Castle National Award5th February 2021
Following The Hylton Castle Project win of the regional Conservation and Regeneration Award at the Constructing Excellence North East Awards last year, it was eligible to go forward to the national awards held this January 2022. And wouldn’t you know it- it won! So the project has won not just the regional CE award but […]
Historic England Covid-19 Emergency Heritage at Risk Response Fund29th January 2021
BBA have been working with Saltburn Community and Arts Association, Cleveland, to obtain emergency funding from the Historic England Covid-19 Heritage at Risk Fund. The building has some eligible repair needs and we assisted the client in specifying repairs and obtaining tenders for the work. It is such a worthy fund and we are grateful […]
Award for Hylton Castle10th October 2020
We are really pleased to announce that The Hylton Castle Project has won the Conservation and Regeneration Award at the CENE 2020 Awards. We are very grateful to CENE, the Judges, the headline sponsor CDM and award Sponsor, SES Engineering, for this award. The award acknowledges the long term vision (and staying power) of the […]
Hylton Castle Opening Soon28th December 2019
We hope to announce the opening dates for Hylton Castle soon. The works are complete and the interpretation is being installed soon. Watch this space!
Latest Tweets
@dsbbba11th April, 2021
@OSaumarezSmith I was the project architect for the restoration, 2009 & got the lucky shots on a Sunny Blunts day in P'lee. Pasmore described it as, “an architecture in sculpture of purely abstract form through which to walk, in which to linger & on which to play-a free & anonymous monument..” https://t.co/3ktHJorEG0
@dsbbba9th April, 2021
@friendschurches Latching on to your thread, here's Temple Moore at Nunthorpe, N Yorks. St Mary https://t.co/VnRIdKJY51
@dsbbba8th April, 2021
@MenschOhneMusil @EmilyGreenaway9 Thanks for sharing as that's new to me, despite living up the hill from Slawit at Linthwaite in the 1980's- where they boiled lead it seems. @artukdotorg https://t.co/tEOA2enpc3 https://t.co/FUzoe55MSP
@dsbbba8th April, 2021
Bit of a rotten day today. The oak cruck beam looked ok from the belfry side but the side in the buried wall head was heavily eroded at wallplate. The rot is ancient and bone dry. We will keep the beam and prop it. @AABC_architect @easanet https://t.co/Gdnlv2Y0CK