Case Studies
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Turner Baker Ltd were commissioned to carry out chimney surveys on a four-storey terraced townhouse in West London. The house was originally designed and built in Victorian times with a fireplace and chimney breast on every floor.
At some point in the history of the property, the chimney breast had been removed from the basement and partially removed from the ground floor. Only one flue remained towards the base of the property which now terminated at the basement ceiling. The flue to the basement floor had been entirely removed and the two flues running to the first floor were still in place.
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Turner Baker Ltd were commissioned to carry out a pole camera survey on the chimney stacks of a detached Edwardian property in North Oxford.
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Turner Baker Ltd was recently asked by the owner of a top floor flat of a Victorian town house in Notting Hill to carry out a GPR survey on the interior of the two end walls of the property.
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Turner Baker recently had the privilege to be involved in the restoration of a beautiful Grade II country house in the Somerset countryside. Hadspen House, had been the home of the Hobhouse family until 2014 when it was purchased by South African businessman Koos Bekker and his wife.
The property and gardens have undergone an extensive but sympathetic transformation process over the last few years to turn the former family home into a boutique hotel.
Turner Baker were part of the project team working on the original building with the overall construction phase being run by Beard Construction.
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Turner Baker were delighted to be recently involved in the huge renovations for the Buxton Crescent & Thermal Spa project, using our extensive restoration experience to provide chimney and flue expertise for this Grade I listed property.
The Crescent was originally built between 1779 and 1789. It was commissioned by the Fifth Duke of Devonshire as part of an ambitious plan to make Buxton a fashionable Georgian spa town, similar to Bath. The Crescent, designed by John Carr of York, provided high quality accommodation in the form of two hotels – the Crescent Hotel within the East pavilion and the St Ann’s Hotel in the West Pavilion.
The crescent stopped being used as a hotel and pump rooms in the 1970’s. From then, it was used as a Tourist Information Centre until 1996.
