Heritage setting
Retaining the former school and designing new buildings that complement its traditional brickwork, gables and roofscape.
Heritage • Conversion • Residential Development
Chaddesley Corbett
A heritage-led residential development combining the conversion of the former Chaddesley Corbett Boys' School with a carefully composed collection of new homes beside the village church.
Project summary
New homes shaped by the character of an important village setting.
The scheme retained and converted the historic school building, now known as Spalding House, and introduced new houses within a landscaped layout responding to the scale, materials and roof forms of the surrounding conservation setting.
Project facts
A coordinated heritage, conversion and housing strategy.
The submitted design package illustrates thirteen house plots together with four apartments within the retained former school building, arranged around a landscaped access and parking framework.
ClientPrivate residential developer
Planning authorityWyre Forest District Council
Project statusCompleted development
Development13 homes and 4 apartments
Services providedPlanning, architecture, masterplanning and heritage coordination
Reference1112
Key challenges
Balancing new development with a highly sensitive historic context.
The design needed to preserve the identity of the former school, respond to the neighbouring church and mature landscape, and establish a commercially workable residential layout without overwhelming the village character.
Site integration
Coordinating access, parking, landscaping and residential amenity within a constrained, irregular site.
Varied accommodation
Combining converted apartments with a range of new house types while maintaining a coherent architectural language.
Completed development
Historic buildings and new homes brought together as one place.
The completed photography records the restored former school, the village church setting and the new residential buildings, showing how traditional materials and carefully scaled forms have established a distinctive and mature development.
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Architectural drawings
Site planning, house types and the conversion of Spalding House.
The drawings below have been presented without the original title blocks and consultant logos, allowing the site strategy, plans and elevations to be viewed more clearly.
Outcome
A completed scheme rooted in local character.
The former school has been given a viable new residential use, while the new homes form a coherent extension to the historic site. The completed development demonstrates how sensitive conversion, contextual architecture and practical masterplanning can unlock a constrained heritage opportunity.
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