Careful renovations of one of the best preserved towns in England, and straightforward extensions, conversions and kitchens across Rye Harbour, Camber and the villages around it.
Rye is the eastern end of our patch and one of the most distinctive towns we work in. The citadel, from Mermaid Street up to the church, is a medieval and Georgian town almost entirely listed, and below it the newer parts of Rye, Rye Harbour, Camber and the villages of Playden, Iden and Winchelsea have housing from every era since.
O&S takes on renovations, extensions, loft conversions, kitchens, bathrooms and barn conversions across Rye and the surrounding area. We are a family run firm based in Polegate, with more than three decades of combined experience across the team, and our own electricians handle the wiring on every job, which matters a great deal in buildings this old.
Inside the old town the houses are timber framed, tile hung, weatherboarded and Georgian brick, on cobbled streets where a van cannot always park outside the door. The work is renovation and repair, sympathetic alteration where consent allows it, and bringing services up to date inside buildings that have stood for four or five hundred years. It is slow, careful work, and the kind we like.
Below the hill and along the roads out of town, Rye has Victorian, interwar and postwar housing where extensions, loft conversions and kitchens are much more straightforward. Rye Harbour and Camber are newer again, with bungalows, chalets and holiday homes that suit refurbishment, and Camber in particular has a stock of properties that owners want brought up to a standard they can let.
The countryside around Rye, towards Playden, Iden, Peasmarsh and Winchelsea, has farmhouses, cottages and a fair number of redundant agricultural buildings, and barn conversions are a particular part of our work out here.
Listed building renovation in the citadel, barn conversions in the country, and the ordinary jobs everywhere in between. 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.
The old town of Rye is a conservation area with one of the highest concentrations of listed buildings in the country, administered by Rother District Council. Most alterations to a listed house need listed building consent, including many internal changes, and we work with your architect or the conservation officer to agree what can be done before we start. Access is its own challenge on the cobbled streets, and we plan deliveries and skips around it. Outside the citadel, permitted development usually applies to rear extensions and loft conversions on the twentieth century housing, subject to the normal limits.
Inside the citadel it is renovation, repair and the careful updating of services in listed houses that are hundreds of years old. It is slow work with a conservation officer often involved, and we plan it that way. Below the hill and along the roads out of town it is rear extensions, loft conversions and kitchens on twentieth century housing.
Camber and Rye Harbour bring refurbishments of bungalows, chalets and holiday lets that owners want brought up to standard, and the countryside around Playden, Iden and Winchelsea brings barn conversions and farmhouse renovations.
Consent, the conservation officer and the right materials are part of the job in Rye. We know the process.
Groundworks, structure, services and fit out for redundant farm buildings around the town.
Camber and Rye Harbour properties brought up to a standard owners can let.
Old buildings need careful rewiring. Ours is done in house, planned to disturb as little as possible.
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 Rye 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 consent, inside as well as out, and we agree the scope with your architect or the conservation officer first. We are used to the timber, tile and lime that Rye is built from.
Yes. Both are regular destinations, particularly for refurbishments of bungalows, chalets and holiday lets that owners want brought up to standard.
Yes. The countryside around Rye has many redundant farm buildings, and converting them is a particular part of our work, from the groundworks and structure through to the fit out.
It is the far end of our patch, about fifty minutes from Polegate along the A259. We are there regularly, and for a larger job we plan the week around it.
We plan it. The cobbled streets are narrow and parking is scarce, so deliveries, skips and scaffold are arranged in advance and agreed with you and, where needed, the council.
Yes. Winchelsea, Winchelsea Beach, Udimore, Peasmarsh and Northiam are all within the area we work in from Rye.
Four of the towns and villages next to Rye 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.
