hotel expansion, county durham


Both directors enjoy a close working relationship with the client for this project which was carried out whilst they were both with Padgett Lavender Associates. The brief was to extend the existing hotel from 17 bedrooms to 53 rooms, provide a 5000 square foot sub divisible function room and refurbish and restore the original grade II listed house. The development of the scheme involved close consultation with the with the County Council, English Heritage, and the local planning authority. Great emphasis was placed on achieving a symmetrical frontage to the grade II listed historic landscape of Hardwick Park. The finished project won awards from the Northumbria Tourist Board. Since completion of the extensions in 2001 we have also obtained planning consent for a further development of 48 bedrooms to the north of the main hotel building.

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