Esme Coppock

Esmé is our Communications Lead and is responsible for engaging people with our work online. She is also a student at the University of Edinburgh, studying for an MA in architectural history and heritage. She is involved towards the end of your project when we are seeking to reflect on our work with you and understand more about your experience so we can evolve our practice.

Articles by Esme Coppock

Spring has sprung on site

13th Apr, 2020 1:34 pm Comments Off on Spring has sprung on site

Taking a moment to pause and admire the beautiful blossom in full bloom on this socially distanced site visit to Ledbury. Enjoying.. Continue Reading >

Story of the Stones

28th Feb, 2020 11:50 am Comments Off on Story of the Stones

The interplay of granite and basalt against the limestone steps of the west portico of St Matthias. A trinity of stone... Continue Reading >

Visiting St Matthias

28th Feb, 2020 11:30 am Comments Off on Visiting St Matthias

Visiting St Matthias to enjoy their new piazza. Even on a rainy February day the sense of opens is quite dramatic... Continue Reading >

Podcast 3: Extending a Twentieth Century Home to Embrace a Twenty First Century Lifestyle

7th Feb, 2020 4:00 am Comments Off on Podcast 3: Extending a Twentieth Century Home to Embrace a Twenty First Century Lifestyle

Our clients, Sophie, Chris and their two children relocated to a beautiful village.. Continue Reading >

Podcast 2: Transforming a 1970s House for the Third Age

31st Jan, 2020 1:27 pm Comments Off on Podcast 2: Transforming a 1970s House for the Third Age

Our clients relocated from their countryside home into a market town, where they found a 1970s house,.. Continue Reading >

Enjoying a new view

29th Jan, 2020 12:00 pm Comments Off on Enjoying a new view

January is well underway and we are back on site with restored vision. Here we pause and take a moment to enjoy.. Continue Reading >

Laying out a Trefoil

12th Nov, 2019 12:00 pm Comments Off on Laying out a Trefoil

Gary from Alliance Building Company has been laying out granite cobbles to form a trefoil at St Matthias Church, Torquey. November 2019.. Continue Reading >

Planning the Pattern

30th Oct, 2019 12:00 pm Comments Off on Planning the Pattern

Silver Grey granite setts laid against Tombermore Fusion Concrete setts to form a Trefoil at St Matthias Church, Torquey. October 2019.. Continue Reading >

Mosaics, Pine Flooring and Victorian Trench Heating.

17th Oct, 2019 7:01 am Comments Off on Mosaics, Pine Flooring and Victorian Trench Heating.

Victorian mosaics, pitch pine parquet flooring and Victorian trench heating, being given an extra boost with a trench heater... Continue Reading >

Unexpected Blessings

16th Oct, 2019 7:01 am Comments Off on Unexpected Blessings

This well was unexpectedly found onsite during works, our clients have since transformed it into a centre piece for their new extension. October 2019.. Continue Reading >

Paving the Way

13th Oct, 2019 7:14 am Comments Off on Paving the Way

Setting out a paved piazza to enhance the setting of St Matthias Church, originally by Anthony Salvin and John Pearson in Torquay. It is always.. Continue Reading >

Stabilising a Fire Damaged Cottage

13th Oct, 2019 7:00 am Comments Off on Stabilising a Fire Damaged Cottage

A phoenix rising from the ashes. Here, works are underway to enable the stabilisation of this fire damaged cottage before repair.. Continue Reading >

Steps carved from Forest of Dean Stone

13th Oct, 2019 6:57 am Comments Off on Steps carved from Forest of Dean Stone

Carved stone steps made from Forest of Dean stone awaiting the finishing touch: a steel handrail. Extension to a.. Continue Reading >

Stone Steps at St Matthias Church, Torquay

13th Oct, 2019 6:53 am Comments Off on Stone Steps at St Matthias Church, Torquay

Laying new steps, complete with cut-outs for new lighting to illuminate the stone columns of the West Door Arcade... Continue Reading >

Medieval dovecote

15th Sep, 2019 9:04 pm Comments Off on Medieval dovecote

A circular, stone dovecote with a conical stone-tiled roof, supported by wood louvres to create the pyramid roof. September 2019.. Continue Reading >

Podcast 1: A Historic House in Herefordshire

13th Sep, 2019 3:16 pm Comments Off on Podcast 1: A Historic House in Herefordshire

Alex invites you to pull up a chair and enter a conversation with Susanna and James who bought a.. Continue Reading >

Swept ceiling to an extension

15th Jul, 2019 9:00 pm Comments Off on Swept ceiling to an extension

A sculptural ceiling cascading into a new extension to a Georgian House in Herefordshire. July 2019.. Continue Reading >

Finishing Touches

15th Jul, 2019 8:57 pm Comments Off on Finishing Touches

A Georgian door receiving some TLC onsite in Herefordshire. July 2019.. Continue Reading >

New sliding door and screen

1st Jul, 2019 8:54 pm Comments Off on New sliding door and screen

The frames are ready to be fitted into place for an extension to a listed building in Ledbury. July 2019.. Continue Reading >

Conserved gable nearing completion

15th Jun, 2019 8:53 pm Comments Off on Conserved gable nearing completion

Wow. This is looking so beautiful. A Victorian decorative gable nearing completion, lovingly conserved and restored. June 2019.. Continue Reading >

Flooring for a new kitchen

15th Jun, 2019 8:51 pm Comments Off on Flooring for a new kitchen

Nearing the end of this extension as the builders lay the flooring for the kitchen. Or is this just the beginning?.. Continue Reading >

Laying Hereford Sandstone

15th Jun, 2019 8:48 pm Comments Off on Laying Hereford Sandstone

Locally delved sandstone being laid as paving on a local site. June 2019.. Continue Reading >