Smith & Garratt are pleased to be helping with the upgrade of facilities at Kelso Racecourse. Before any major new development can take place it is necessary to improve the back-stage layout and the circulation of people and horses. The photo shows Hugh setting out the new paddock in the old-fashioned way, with a tilting … Read more
Last week, on 30th November at the Georgian Group Architectural Awards 2017 in London, Hugh Garratt was delighted to accept the Award for Best Restoration of a Georgian Interior on behalf of Smith & Garratt as designers and project managers for the restoration of Marchmont House. The Georgian Group is the national charity for the protection … Read more
We are delighted that one of our heritage projects is to be featured in two publications of Country Life. Spread over the next two weeks, in the Scottish (16th August) and Restoration (23rd August) editions, will be an article about Marchmont House its history and, more recently, its conversion from a former nursing home on … Read more
A major phase of works draws to a close at Catrine Heritage Project in Ayrshire. Nowadays quiet, the small Ayrshire town of Catrine has a long and vibrant history connected with milling cotton, and was at the forefront of 19th century technology when two enormous water wheels known as ‘the Lions of Catrine’ were installed. … Read more
For the past few weeks Smith & Garratt have been working on heritage consultancy and costings reports for the renovation of the iconic ‘Spanish City’ in Whitley Bay. The Spanish City was a permanent funfair in the seaside town on North Tyneside. Erected as a smaller version of Blackpool’s Pleasure Beach, it opened in 1910 as … Read more
Following the client’s approach some four years ago Smith & Garratt investigated a variety of options for generating renewable power. The controlling factor, as is often the case, was the cost of a grid connection. This farm’s transformer is at the end of a spur. Grid reinforcement was prohibitively expensive, as was the infrastructure to … Read more