Working alongside estate agents Shuldham Calverley on behalf of owners the Sitwell Estate, PDP secured Planning and Listed Building Consent in October for the residential conversion of an historic stone outbuilding in the grounds of the Grade II Listed Southgate Old House, in Eckington, North Derbyshire.Southgate Old House is an attractive, mid seventeenth century estate owned property situated on Southgate, the road linking the Sitwell family’s ancestral home Renishaw Hall and Eckington town centre.
The outbuilding, which is believed to date from the same period as the house, has been redundant for a number of years, and recent attempts to secure reuse through conversion to either office or residential had been hampered by limitations in visibility sightlines at the site’s entrance.
A satisfactory scheme was finally agreed with the Local Authority in October, which involved sensitive alterations to the site frontage to improve both driver and pedestrian visibility. PDP are delighted that a viable use has finally been secured for this humble but historically important building, and look forward to seeing the building restored in due course.
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