Recent Projects
Victoria Court, Royal Earlswood Park
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Dating back to 1847 Royal Earlswood was formally Royal Earlswood hospital, a mental asylum that was known for housing Nerissa and Katherine Bowes-Lyon, nieces of the Queen Mother and Cousins to Queen Elizabeth II.
OD Restoration undertook all the external restoration and decoration works and are pleased to be given the opportunity of restoring this historic building back to its natural beauty.
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Key Facts
Location: Redhill
Duration: 20 weeks
Works completed: Stone repairs, roof repairs, pointing, brick replacements, decorations, guttering repairs.
Christies London
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The Portland stone front of Christie's is at once the most distinguished and the most orthodox of the late nineteenth-century buildings in King Street, with all the qualities to be expected in the work of so scholarly an architect as J. Macvicar Anderson. The style is Renaissance with a strong flavour of Baroque in the ground storey, and the treatment is astylar. There are four well-defined storeys below the main entablature with an attic above, and vertical breaks form a central feature projecting slightly from wings, all of similar width.
Key Facts
Location: London
Duration: 14 weeks
Works completed: TORC cleaning, stone repairs, stone replacements, brick replacements, rendering, repointing.
Ilford High Road Baptist Church
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The Baptist Church and Institute were built by George Baines & Son in 1907 and 1908 respectively in response to the rapid urbanisation and growing population of Ilford at the turn of the century. Other than some minor reordering within the church and the creation of a modern atrium at the north end, the buildings are largely unaltered.
Key Facts
Location: Ilford
Duration: 19 weeks
Works completed: Steam cleaning, pointing and brickwork, roof works, stone work, decorations and carpentry works.
Ascot Racecourse
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Turnstiles and offices. Foundation stone inscribed ‘VR 1896’. Brick with stone dressings. Flat roof. Long rectangular plan. EXTERIOR: single storey and 2 storeys. Stone band above plinth level; moulded string at impost and first floor levels; moulded cornice and vase balustraded parapet. South front facing road: 16 bays. The 1st and 11th bays are taller. The 1st bay has no windows, but has a circular stone motif at the upper level with the royal crown carved in stone. The 11th bay has tripartite sash windows with stone mullions and surrounds; the 2 bays to the right of this are lower with similar windows.
Key Facts
Location: Ascot
Duration: 19 weeks
Works completed: Steam cleaning, pointing and brickwork, stone work, decorations and carpentry work.
Borough Market
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Built in 1872 and designed by renowned Victorian architect Henry Jarvis, The Globe Tavern is set in a distinctive gothic-style building.Restoration works included: Doff clean, removal of all cementitious pointing from the building’s facade, re-pointing in a lime mortar, the dismantling and rebuilding of one pediment and the replacement of stone cornices, dentils and copings.The building is positioned between two live railway lines and working in one of the most famous and busiest market in London meant health and safety considerations were controlled at a high standard.
Key Facts
Location: London Bridge
Duration: 22 weeks
Works completed: Steam cleaning, pointing and brickwork, roof works, stone work, decorations carpentry works.
Environmental responsibility
Customer Focused
Expertise and Experience
Cost savings and Quality Assurance.
Royal Parks
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The Royal Parks of London are lands originally owned by the monarchy of the United Kingdom for the recreation, mostly hunting, of the royal family. They are part of the hereditary possessions of The Crown.
Our dedicated team have carried out various projects across the Royal Parks including: Brick work, DOFF cleaning, stone indents, brick pointing and stone repairs.
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Key Facts
Location: London Royal Parks
Duration: 15 weeks
Works completed: Steam cleaning, pointing and brickwork, stone work, decorations, carpentry works.
Liberty (Department Store)
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Arthur Lasenby Liberty was born in Chesham, Buckinghamshire, in 1843. He was employed by Messrs Farmer and Rogers in Regent Street in 1862, the year of the International Exhibition. By 1874, inspired by his 10 years of service, he decided to start a business of his own, which he did the next year. With a £2,000 loan from his future father-in-law, he accepted the lease of half a shop at 218a Regent Street with three staff members.
The shop opened during 1875 selling ornaments, fabric and objets d’art from Japan and the East. Within eighteen months, he had repaid the loan and acquired the second half of 218 Regent Street. As the business grew, neighbouring properties were bought and added.[4]
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Key Facts
Location: Regent St
Duration: 28 weeks
Works completed: Steam cleaning, pointing and brickwork, stone work, decorations carpentry works.
Southbank House
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The Grade II listed building known as Southbank House, formerly one of the Doulton Pottery Buildings, was built in 1876-78, of red brick with polychromy, with an eye-catching trim at every point with pink sandy-coloured terracotta dressings. It stands at the junction of Lambeth High Street and Black Prince Road.
Working with the client and alongside the English Heritage, We carried out works including DOFF cleaning, brick pointing; tuck pointing, brick replacement, Terracotta mortar repairs and Terracotta replacements all being approved by the English Heritage. Once all work was approved, ODR carried out the full restoration of the external facade.
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Key Facts
Location: Southbank
Duration: 42 weeks
Works completed: Steam cleaning, pointing and brickwork, stone work, decorations, carpentry work.
120 Oxford Street
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This building on Oxford Street was once home to the Bourne and Hollingsworth Department Store. That company closed its doors in 1983 and subsequently the building was converted into the Plaza Shopping Centre. The building’s Wikipedia page tells something of its story. “Bourne and Hollingsworth was a large department store on the corner of Oxford Street and Berners Street. It was named after its founders, Walter William Bourne and Howard E Hollingsworth, brothers in law, who started the store in Westbourne Grove as a drapery store in 1894. The store then moved to the Oxford Street site in 1902 (built in 1894) due to competition with Whiteleys, and by 1928 the store had been remodelled (by Slater & Moberley in the Art Deco style. ….
Key Facts
Location: Oxford St
Duration: 65 weeks
Works completed: Steam cleaning, pointing and brickwork, stone work, decorations, carpentry work.
Reading Abbey
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The Abbey’s Inner Gateway also known as the Abbey Gateway adjoins Reading Crown Court and Forbury Gardens. It is one of only two abbey buildings that have survived intact, and is a grade I listed building. The Inner Gateway marked the division between the area open to the public and the section accessible only to monks. Hugh Faringdon, the last abbot of Reading was hanged, drawn, and quartered outside the Abbey Gateway in 1539. The gateway survived because it was used as the entrance to the abbots lodging, which was turned into a royal palace after the dissolution. In the late 18th century, the gateway was used as part of the Reading Ladies’ Boarding School, attended amongst others by the novelist Jane Austen.
Key Facts
Location: Reading
Duration: 55 weeks
Works completed: Steam cleaning, pointing and brickwork, stone work, decorations and carpentry work.
Royal College of Nursing
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Substantial town house 1729. Refronted and incorporated by Sir Edwin Cooper in 1930 into his redevelopment of the corner site with Henrietta Place. Five storeys basement and dormers in attic, classical Portland stone facing. Five windows. Rusticated ashlar central enclosed porch. Interior of original structure retains fielded panelled rooms with carved marble chimneypieces to ground, first and second floors. Cut string staircase with wrought iron balustrade, the stairwell and its ceiling painted in trompe l’oeil-artists probably include John Devoto and Sir James Thornhill. Residence of H H Asquith: GLC plaque. One of the earliest houses in the square.
Key Facts
Location: Oxford St
Duration: 15 weeks
Works completed: Steam cleaning, pointing and brickwork, stone work, decoration works and carpentry works.
Lauderdale Mansions
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Lauderdale Mansions is a Victorian block of 142 apartments in Lauderdale road, Maida Vale. Built in 1897, it was the first of a swathe of mansion flat buildings for the middle classes that spread across central Maida Vale in the 1897 – 1907 periods.
ODR carried out Brick work, DOFF cleaning, stone indents, pointing and stone repairs over three phases. Ground works around Lauderdale Mansions was also completed as an additional request.
Key Facts
Location: Maida Vale
Duration: 42 weeks
Works completed: Steam cleaning, pointing and brickwork, stone work, decorations and carpentry works.
