Sector: Buildings of Historical Interest Main Contractor: William Birch & Sons Ltd Architect: Jacobs Engineering Ltd Services Client: North Yorkshire County Council Services: • Lime plastering • Replication of mouldings to match existing • Running in-situ • Bespoke County Hall was designed by Walter Henry Brierley in 1905 and built on the site of the […]
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Bath House and Chapel in Private Estate
Sector: Private Architect: Craig Hamilton Architects Services • Lime sand plastering • Groined vaulted ceilings • Barrell vaulted ceilings • Coffered ceilings • Bespoke ceiling domes • Bespoke fibrous cornices and friezes The addition of a Bath House and Chapel to a Country House Estate in Gloucestershire completed a major project which gained recognition in […]
The Assembly Rooms, York
Sector: Public Main Contractor: Simpsons of York Architect: Guy Bowyer, YCT Client: York Conservation Trust Services • Clean and survey the cornice • Remove ductwork plaster • Remove ceiling roses • Remove lath and plaster to cornice • Fit replacement laths and apply 3 coat haired lime plaster • Reproduce new ceiling roses to match […]
Prestigious FIS Gold Award for Leeds company
The excellence of the work done by Ornate Interiors, who have operated from premises in Pudsey for over 20 years, has been recognised with the Gold Award for Heritage Plastering in this year’s Construction Industry’s Finishes and Interiors Sector (FIS) presentations. The judges considered 50 shortlisted projects across 12 categories. The Heritage Plastering Gold Award […]
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Oldham Town Hall
Sector: Public Main Contractor: Morgan Sindall plc Architect: BDP (Architects) Manchester Client: Oldham Council Services • Specialist plaster repairs to heritage features • Reproduction and installation of mouldings • Lime on hardwood lath ceilings • Lime plastering to masonry walls In 1841 building work started on the landmark Town Hall in Oldham, the North-Western town […]
Sewerby Hall
Sector: Buildings of Historic Interest Main Contractor: William Birch,York Architect: East Riding of Yorkshire Council Services • Securing ceilings • Lime Plastering • Restoration of internal plaster mouldings • Restoration of external mouldings Sewerby Hall is a Grade I listed Georgian country house that dates from 1714. In 1936, in a ceremony led by aviator […]
Private Chapel
Sector: Ecclesiastical Main Contractor: William Anelay Architect: Craig Hamilton Architects Services • Manufacture and installation of architect designed plaster mouldings • Lime plastering • Lime Rendering Award-winning architect Craig Hamilton designed this private chapel as a place of worship for up to 30 people, sited in the grounds of a private lodge. Although this was […]
Huddersfield Town Hall
Sector: Public Main Contractor: Strategic Team Group Architect: Aedas Services • Site Survey • Lime Plastering • Restoration of historic plaster mouldings Having commissioned in-depth Advisory Reports from Ornate Interiors for town halls in Batley, Dewsbury and Cleckheaton, Kirklees Council invited the company to help the chosen main contractors Strategic Team Group with the restoration […]
Gorton Monastery
Sector: Ecclesiastical Main Contractor: William Anelay Limited Architect: Austin Smith Lord Services • Lath & Lime plastering • Reproduction of plaster mouldings Gorton Monastery was founded on a four-acre site in East Manchester, acquired in the 1860s by Franciscan monks for £2,200. Built between 1863 and 1867, the friary was designed by Edward Welby Pugin, […]