More of our finished work is here
than anywhere else.

Ross is where most of our completed work is. The Lea project — staircase, viewing terrace, kitchen and water wall — is here, as is the Foy garage conversion with its first-floor office, and the Hole in the Wall cottage modernisation. The Gorsley extension is a few minutes up the road. We are based in Hereford, and Ross sits inside our normal working radius rather than at the edge of it.

The Ross-on-Wye conservation area was designated on 31 March 1970 and covers the town centre; Herefordshire Council is the planning authority. Worth knowing: the national planning-data register lists no conservation-area appraisal for it, so there is less published guidance to work from than in towns with a recent appraisal. That makes an early conversation with the conservation officer more valuable, not less, and we build it into the programme rather than discovering it at validation.

Ross-on-Wye sits inside the Wye Valley National Landscape. The designation runs 128 square miles from Mordiford, south-east of Hereford, down the lower Wye to Chepstow, and has been protected since 1971. Inside it, materials, massing and the setting of a building are looked at more closely than they would be elsewhere. That is a specification and pricing fact we are upfront about: natural stone, conservation-grade joinery and appropriate roof coverings cost more than volume housebuilding.

Usually not. Nutrient-neutrality requirements in the Wye and Lugg catchments apply to development that adds overnight accommodation — new dwellings, annexes, some conversions — rather than to an ordinary extension of an existing home. The catchment remains under active scrutiny, so we check the position at feasibility stage instead of assuming it, and tell you before you pay for drawings.

It depends on the house and the scope, so we quote rather than guess. For scale, our published ranges run £1,800–£2,600 per m² for EnerPHit-route deep retrofit, £2,400–£3,200 per m² for Passive House new build and £2,800–£3,800 per m² for full design-build A–Z. Extensions and renovations are priced individually. The first 30-minute consultation is free, and you will get honest numbers — including when the answer is that a project is not worth doing.