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As well as adapting old buildings, Robinson Thorne Architects have worked specifically on projects to repair and conserve the fabric of important historic buildings, often in consultation with English Heritage, the National Trust and Conservation officers.
Projects have included complex masonry repairs as at Somerleyton Hall, Suffolk and Magdalen College, Oxford. In Tottenham, a fine Georgian brick house has been repaired, and at Standen, works include complete re-roofing, and the repair of the Conservatory.
Bodley and Garner's St Swithuns Tower, at Magdalen College, Oxford, was built of local limestone of declining quality and the increasing safety risk justified a major rebuilding exercise, with the construction of a new spire, battlements and turret, and new lead roofing. New carving was based on the best examples of surviving work, taken back the workshops of Ketton Stone, who rebulit the tower in traditional masonry of a very high standard.
