Sheet 01 — Index of works

Projects

A running register of the buildings we have brought back into use — and the ones currently on the drawing board or on site. Every scheme begins the same way: an empty floor in Sunderland, and a feasibility study that tells us whether it deserves a second life.

Completed & on site Sunderland SR1–SR5 Reg. updated Oct 2026

Restored stone facade of the Fawcett Street building with a regular grid of sash windows — P-01 · Fawcett StreetCompleted 2025

P-01 — Offices to workspace · Completed

Fawcett Street upper floors

Four vacant storeys above a retail unit between Keel Square and the Museum & Winter Gardens. The original stone facade was cleaned and repointed, failing window lintels replaced, and every floor rewired and re-serviced. The building now houses eight studio and office units let to Wearside businesses, from a glassblowing studio to a translation agency.

Gross area 4,200 m² 8 units Facade repair Full rewire

Red brick Victorian terrace facade on High Street West after refurbishment — P-02 · High Street WestCompleted 2024

P-02 — Period terrace · Completed

High Street West terrace

A six-storey Victorian terrace a few minutes from the Empire Theatre, empty on its upper floors for over a decade. We repaired brickwork and sash windows floor by floor, stripped out later accretions, and re-planned the interiors as managed studio and workshop space. Ground-floor units remained trading throughout, sequenced behind a phased scaffold plan.

6 storeys Heritage-sensitive Phased scaffold

Buildings returned to use in the SR1 postcode alone

19,400

Square metres refurbished on completed schemes

Conservation-area consents secured to date

Construction site during structural works on the former print works, with machinery and excavated groundwork — P-03 · St Mark's RoadOn site

P-03 — Former print works · On site

St Mark's Road works

A 9,800 m² former print works in the St Peter's quarter, between the Stadium of Light and the university buildings, vacant since the industry consolidated elsewhere. Steel frame repairs and a complete re-roofing are underway, with fit-out following in three phases so the first occupiers can move in while later sections are still being finished.

Gross area 9,800 m² Steel & roof works 3-phase delivery

Refurbished concrete and glass office building on John Street with new glazing — P-04 · John StreetCompleted 2023

P-04 — Offices to studios · Completed

John Street offices

A tired mid-century office block off John Street, last fully let in the early 2010s. Rather than demolish, we retained the frame, replaced the failing envelope, and re-planned the floors as open studios with shared meeting space. The embodied-carbon case for retention won support from the council's design officers at pre-app stage.

Frame retention Envelope replacement 12 studios

100^%

Completed schemes handed over with full O&M documentation

Individual units and workspaces created so far

Demolitions — every scheme has retained the existing structure

Period stone facade with ornate original window surrounds on a Sunderland corner block — P-05 · Hendon RoadFeasibility

P-05 — Corner block · Feasibility stage

Hendon Road corner block

A handsome corner block on the edge of Hendon, its ground floor trading but three upper floors boarded since the 1990s. Measured survey and structural appraisal are complete; we are testing a scheme that returns the upper floors to use as workspace while keeping the ground-floor business in place and trading throughout.

Survey complete Structural appraisal Pre-app discussion

Finished workspace interior with desks, shelving and daylight from tall refurbished windows — P-06 · Tatham StreetCompleted 2022

P-06 — Warehouse conversion · Completed

Tatham Street warehouse

A small warehouse and yard off Tatham Street near Park Lane interchange, previously used for storage. We repaired the trusses, insulated the shell to current standards and converted the space into workshops for local makers, with a shared tools library and loading bay retained for the businesses that need it.

Truss repair Workshops Shared yard

Could your building be P-07?

If you own an empty upper floor, a vacant commercial building or a tired terrace anywhere in Sunderland or the wider Wearside area, we would rather survey it than guess at it. Send the address and we will take it from there.

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