Elspeth Beard specialises in creating or remodelling interesting and unusual buildings, both old and new. When working with old buildings, she likes to give them a new lease of life by mixing conservation with contemporary design; the clean lines and modern feel of new elements contrasting with the original features of the existing building. Much of her work involves the conversion of listed buildings such as water towers, lighthouses and barns into striking and unique family homes.
She also creates all kinds of new houses, varying from traditional timber-framed constructions to modern buildings with rendered walls and large areas of floor-to-ceiling glass. Elspeth's Grade II listed, hundred-year-old home, which took seven years to convert, completed in 1996. Elspeth works on sites and buildings of all sizes, but whatever size they are, she likes them to be out of the ordinary.
She can provide a comprehensive service from the initial design stage right through to the completion of works and is happy to give clients as much (or as little) involvement in the whole process as they desire.
She also creates all kinds of new houses, varying from traditional timber-framed constructions to modern buildings with rendered walls and large areas of floor-to-ceiling glass. Elspeth's Grade II listed, hundred-year-old home, which took seven years to convert, completed in 1996. Elspeth works on sites and buildings of all sizes, but whatever size they are, she likes them to be out of the ordinary.
She can provide a comprehensive service from the initial design stage right through to the completion of works and is happy to give clients as much (or as little) involvement in the whole process as they desire.
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Elspeth Beard's projects have been featured in magazines and TV programmes worldwide: UK - Grand Designs, Self Build, Country Homes & Interiors, Discovery Channel (USA) - World's Most Extreme Homes amongst many others.
Here you can find some links to PDF files of most of the publications listed here, and more.
Here you can find some links to PDF files of most of the publications listed here, and more.
Elspeth Beard Architects is based in a converted stable in the centre of Godalming, (near Guildford) in Surrey and currently consists of Elspeth and a small team of architects and support staff.
Elspeth Beard has been registered as an architect with the ARB (Architects' Registration Board) since 1989 and is also a member of the RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects).
She qualified as an architect in 1989 and worked for several years in a London-based practice where she became first an associate and then a director before leaving to start her own practice in 1998.
Elspeth Beard has been registered as an architect with the ARB (Architects' Registration Board) since 1989 and is also a member of the RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects).
She qualified as an architect in 1989 and worked for several years in a London-based practice where she became first an associate and then a director before leaving to start her own practice in 1998.
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