CONSULT
Agree The Vision
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​Every heritage project starts with decisions that are hard to reverse later. Our consultation work focuses on agreeing the right vision at the outset: how a building should feel, how it will be used, and how heritage value, modern life and long-term stewardship fit together. We work with owners early, before drawings harden into assumptions, so the project has clarity rather than momentum for its own sake.
Apricot Barn,
Shropshire
This was the defining project for the wider Lighteach Estate. The consultation phase set the philosophical framework for the whole development, centred on the idea of Live, Grow, Breathe. The brief balanced restoration to a sense of former glory with contemporary expectations around space, light and quality of life, alongside clear environmental aims such as “giving nature a home”. That early agreement shaped not just one barn, but the tone of the entire estate.
Wild Rose House, Wolverhampton
A high-spec private house where consultation focused on agreeing bespoke internal arrangements before any technical design began. This included specialist rooms such as a media room with integrated server space and perimeter lighting, and a dedicated wine cellar. The success here was not complexity, but clarity: agreeing how luxury would be expressed in practical, buildable terms that reflected how the client actually lived.
Thyme Cottage,
South Staffs
Here the consultation extended beyond the building itself into how the wider site would function. We worked through ownership and use of shared external facilities, including a combined garage and office complex and an activity centre. The process ensured buyers fully understood their freehold rights, shared responsibilities and the role of the management company, avoiding ambiguity later on.