Jewel in the crown - Heaton House Sunday Times Feature

Today see’s a special feature in the Sunday Times on Elevates award winning restoration of Heaton House in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter

The results are so transformative that this week, this showpiece project won one of UK’s top prizes at the Federation of Master Builders (FMB) awards, which celebrate the best projects by small and medium-sized builders across the UK.

Elevate Founder Steve Dodd sat down with journalist Melissa York to discuss how the private villa became such a personal obsession.

When Steve first came across the site, it was derelict, it wasn’t listed, but the planners at Birmingham city council wanted Elevate to preserve it all the same.

“We didn’t have a lot of choice. It would have been a shame to waste it and not restore it to its original glory” Dodd says.

The house was built in about 1823 as a private residence for a wealthy merchant, with an abundance of outstanding original features.

It’s no exaggeration to say Dodd fell in love with the building and decided that the only way to do the architecture justice would be to reunite it as one grand residence. He boarded it up for a year, focused on the rest of the site and didn’t open the house up again until he found the right company to revive it.

He found what he was looking for in @vantageandco_ (V&Co), which works on private homes as well as new-build developments, mainly across the Midlands and the Cotswold. The project appealed to V&Co because of its rarity and epic challenge .

The brief was to restore the outside to a magnificent Georgian villa but create modern luxury inside in keeping with the original period.

In his submission for the FMB awards, Steve Rankin, V&Co Director, wrote that he felt as though he was following in the footsteps of “our fellow master craftsmen who built this outstanding villa 200 years ago”.

Read the full article in the Sunday Times today

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