2023
Twenty-six apartments over two shops, reached by open deck rather than internal corridor.
Places built to last.
Ashcombe designs and develops housing in the north of England. Fourteen schemes completed since 2009, none of them speculative.
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Projects
2021
A house for a returning client, set into a slope so the upper floor opens straight onto the garden.
2022
Sixty-two apartments on a former loading dock, with the waterside edge given back to the towpath.
On site
Thirty-eight apartments around a planted courtyard, built fabric first and with no gas connection.
2019
A worsted mill taken back to its frame and rebuilt as homes above two ground floor workshops.
2024
A single room with a high north light, let to three of the trades who built the houses next door.
Kingsmead
Ninety-six homes along the canal, half of them affordable, phased so the first residents moved in two years before the last foundations were poured.
- Homes
- 96
- Location
- Wakefield
- Completed
- 2025
- 2009
- Founded
- 14
- Schemes completed
- 612
- Homes delivered
- 9
- People
Practice
We buy the site, draw the building and see it through to handover. Keeping those three jobs in one office is the reason our drawings survive contact with a budget.
Nine people, one studio, two or three schemes at a time. We turn down more work than we take, which keeps the director who signed the drawings on site while they are being built.
Every scheme is costed against a thirty year view rather than a sale price. It makes the first invoice larger and everything after it smaller.
“They kept the drawings honest and the programme steady. Two years on, Stonemill costs us less to maintain than anything else we own.”
Contact
Tell us about the site or the building. We reply to everything within a week, including the schemes we cannot take on.
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