Bristow + Associates

18/06/2024

Nice to catch up with a bit of sketching when waiting for a contractor on site.✏️

11/02/2024

A sketch proposal for a new house on the outskirts of Wi******er. Pedestrian access would be through a secluded garden, with vehicular access to the side of the rear garden, The design for this 5 bedroomed house follows the base vernacular forms of the local traditional buildings. ******er

31/12/2023

Wishing all our friends, followers and clients all the very best for 2024

23/12/2023

Wishing you all a very merry Christmas and best wishes for 2024. The door is at West Horsley Place in Surrey. A grade I listed building steeped in history with connections to Henry VIII, Sir Walter Raleigh (stories regarding his head in a bag mostly). Thomas Cromwell, Queen Elisabeth I, Guy Fawkes and Bamber Gascoigne. Built in 1425 as a huge timber framed hall
house and cladded in ornate brickwork in 1640. Currently famous (Button
House) as the setting for the BBC Ghosts series. Well worthy a visit. #2024

26/10/2023

We have been busy, 4 planning permissions in 4 weeks.
1) A contemporary entrance and cloakroom extension. in Broadstone.
2) Wrap around extension to form an open plan kitchen/ dining/ family room, plus bedroom and ensuite in Merley
3)Large open plan kitchen/ dining/ family room extension and formation of a further bedroom in Wimborne.
4) A new entrance, new bedroom with ensuite and a bedroom extension in Broadstone.

21/08/2023

One of mine at Spase. Approval covers refenistration of the public house, conversion of two structures to holiday accommodation, a new public entrance to the public house.

Changes have been agreed for a pub site near Weymouth which should see it...

10/06/2023

Pen and ink sketch from the plan chest. Perspective of a project to upgrade the farmhouse and convert the historic outbuildings to accommodation and inside swimming pool.

08/04/2023

Old Came is a former rectory constructed in the cottage orné style in 1808.
The rendered Grade II Rectory is constructed of rubble stone at ground floor level adopting an earlier building, with the first floor addition of cob walling under an extensive thatched roof.
This private house was home to the famous poet and philologist, the
Reverend William Barnes (1801-86). Thomas Hardy and T E Lawrence were
frequent visitors to this property. Illustration prepared Design as part of planning, construction and joinery drawings for the recent extensive repairs and refurbishment of this gorgeous vernacular property.

02/04/2023

The Lady Wimborne Bridge, also known as Bridge 77, with a grade II listing, was formerly a railway bridge built in 1855 to carry the Southampton and
Dorchester Railway over the carriage way leading to Canford Manor, now
Canford School, from Wimborne.

Faced with Ham stone, the bridge remains one of the most ornately carved railway bridges in the country, with a highly decorative use of Gothic architecture. The bridge was commissioned by Sir John and Lady Charlotte Guest, who bought the Canford Estate in 1846, with several bridge designs prepared by Sir Charles Barry, architect of the Houses of Parliament. Included in this collection of images is a design prepared by Barry
illustrating a more ornate bridge and was likely a great deal more costly than that envisaged and acceptable by the Estate. Barry's highly ornate design of May 1853 was simplified to the structure that was eventually constructed, adorned with pinnacles, crocketting, crests and the heraldry of Sir (Josiah) John Guest.

The bridge continues to command attention and anyone walking from
Wimborne, along the Stour Valley Way, can still pass under this striking former railway bridge.

05/03/2023

An Arts and Craft garden structure in Broadstone, the last remaining evidence of the substantial Arts and Craft style house, demolished in the 70’s. This lovely building, built as a changing room for the tennis courts in the extensive grounds, has luckily been maintained and will be given a new life as a garden room / study.