Longlands, Wells-next-the-Sea

Longlands, Holkham Hall Estate, Holkham

The Longlands complex is a Grade II* listed building constructed in the 1850’s as a base for the building trades which supported the activities of the Holkham Estate. These trades included carpenters, glaziers, blacksmiths, masons and wheelwrights and their respective workshop buildings, which have largely, remain unchanged

Following undertaking a detailed measured building survey back in 2011 we began Phase 1 of the re-development, which equated to about 1000m², in the early part of 2014. The proposal was to convert the majority of the buildings to office use.

The client already had a tenant committed to move in November 2014; therefore the project had a very tight deadline. To meet this deadline, construction started almost at the same time as the detailed design, therefore the building contract was agreed under a negotiated management contract with the main contractor.

As well as the structural design of the converted buildings and remediation of them, Phase 1 also included the entire infrastructure for all phases of the development. Our work here included:

New access road and 100 space car park
Procurement of 240kW Ground Source Heat Pump installation
Procurement and management of a new 750kVA electricity supply and 800kVA substation
Managment of a new 100MB Broadband Connection
Procurement of New Water supply
New Storm Water Drainage Design
New Foul Water drainage including Sewage Treatment Plant and Draingage Field Design
New Plant Room design
New Comm.'s Room design

Phase 1 has won a number of awards including:

28th April 2016 - Winner of ‘Best Refurbished/Recycled Workplace’ for Regional British Council for Offices Award
24th September 2015 - highly commended in the CPRE Norfolk’s Askham Award
August 2015 - Runner up in Rural Business Awards 2015
6th May 2015 - Winner in the Commercial Category in the RICS Awards 2015, East of England

Phase 2, which comprises of 850m² of buildings to be converted into more offices, is now well under way with the same Design Team and Construction Team. Phase 2 started in March 2016, and has sectional handovers up until completion in early 2017.