Sympathetic renovations, extensions and barn conversions for Battle and its villages, where a good deal of the housing is older than most of the country.
Battle is a historic town in every sense, and its housing shows it. The High Street runs from the Abbey gatehouse past timber framed, Georgian and Victorian frontages, most of them listed and all of them in the conservation area, and the roads behind it mix older cottages with twentieth century housing on the edges of the town.
O&S takes on renovations, extensions, conversions, kitchens and bathrooms across Battle and the villages around it. We are a family run firm based in Polegate, with our own electricians on the team, and we are used to working on buildings that need a careful hand.
In the town centre the work is mostly repair, renovation and sympathetic alteration. Timber frames, lime plaster, old brick and tile hanging all need to be worked with rather than against, and the electrics and plumbing in these houses are often the last things anybody touched, sometimes decades ago. A full refurbishment that sorts the services properly, while leaving the building looking like itself, is what most of them need.
Beyond the conservation area, Battle has interwar and postwar housing where extensions and loft conversions are straightforward, and a ring of villages, Netherfield, Whatlington, Catsfield, Sedlescombe, Ninfield and Crowhurst among them, where the stock runs from period cottages to 1960s bungalows on generous plots.
The countryside around the town also has its share of redundant farm buildings, and barn conversions are a particular part of what we do here, working with your architect and Rother's planners on what a building can become.
Careful work on old buildings, and straightforward extensions on the newer ones. Every service
Tired or run down properties taken back and brought forward, room by room or all in one go.
Redundant agricultural buildings turned into homes, working with your architect and building control.
Single and double storey extensions, from the footings and the steel through to the last coat of paint.
Walls out, floors levelled, units fitted, and everything plumbed and wired by our own team.
Full bathroom and wet room fit outs, tanked and tiled properly so nothing moves in five years.
Rewires, lighting and renewable energy installations, carried out by our own qualified electricians.
Battle town centre is a conservation area with a high concentration of listed buildings, administered by Rother District Council. Listed building consent is needed for most alterations to a listed house, inside as well as out, and we work with your architect or the conservation officer to agree what can change before any work starts. Outside the conservation area, permitted development usually applies to rear extensions and loft conversions, subject to the normal limits, and building regulations cover the rest.
Renovation of older houses is the core of our Battle work: cottages and town houses that need the roof, the timbers, the plaster and the services brought back into good order without losing the character that made somebody buy them. It is careful, patient work and it suits the way we like to build.
Out in the villages we are asked for extensions and loft conversions on the twentieth century housing, barn conversions on the farms, and the kitchens, bathrooms and driveways that follow. A fair amount of it starts with a conversation about what the planners will and will not allow.
We work with your architect and the conservation officer, and match materials so the repair belongs.
Groundworks, structure, services and fit out for redundant farm buildings around the town.
Old cottages nearly always need a rewire when they are renovated. Ours do it as part of the job.
A visit, then a clear written price. No charge and no obligation.
The same four steps wherever you are, and the first one is free.
Call 01323 382155 or send a few details. Tell us roughly what you are thinking of and where in Battle you are.
We come and look at the job, measure up, and talk through what is realistic for the house and the budget.
An itemised written quotation, free of charge, so you know exactly what you are agreeing to.
Our own team throughout, building control inspections where they are needed, and the site left tidy every day.
If the answer you need is not here, call Martin on 01323 382155 and ask.
Yes. Most changes to a listed building need listed building consent, and we work with your architect or the conservation officer to agree the scope first. Inside the house we match materials and details so the repair sits properly.
Yes. The countryside around Battle has many redundant farm buildings, and converting them is a particular part of our work. We handle the groundworks, the structure, the services and the fit out, alongside your architect.
Yes, all of the TN33 area and beyond. Netherfield, Whatlington, Catsfield, Sedlescombe, Ninfield and Crowhurst are all regular destinations.
Yes, with our own electricians. Older cottages usually need a full rewire as part of any serious renovation, and we plan the routes so the building is disturbed as little as possible.
Yes, regularly. On listed and conservation area work in Battle we agree the scope with the architect and the officer first, so the job runs without surprises once it starts.
Yes. We source reclaimed and matching materials so that repairs and extensions sit properly against the original building rather than standing out.
Four of the towns and villages next to Battle that we work in just as often.
Call Martin on 01323 382155, or send a few details and we will call you back to arrange a visit. Estimates are free and there is no obligation.
