A Winchester family home reconfigured inside and out: the front elevation rebuilt, the roof replaced and a brick-detailed single-storey wraparound extension to the rear.

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Co-LivingOn site

Commercial To Ten-Bed Co-Living

Cosham, Portsmouth

Bedrooms

10, all en suite

Existing

Commercial and storage

Thistle role

Feasibility, planning, Stage 4, interiors

The end of a 1930s terrace, converted from commercial and storage space into ten en-suite co-living rooms with shared amenity on every floor.

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Mixed UseIn planning

Office To Residential Or HMO

King's Lynn, Norfolk

One building, two viable futures. We drew a residential conversion and a seventeen-room co-living HMO for the same envelope so the client could compare income, build scope and planning risk directly.

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Office to FlatsAt tender

Office Building To Eight Apartments, With A Mansard

Winchester, Hampshire

A former office building at the top of Winchester High Street, beside a Grade I listed neighbour, converted into eight apartments with a new mansard roof extension.

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Commercial to ResidentialIn planning

Office To High-End Houses

Compton, Newbury

Sketch proposals tested

Homes identified

Three-bed units

83 sqm

A rural office building tested against two sketch schemes, landing on a terrace of four three-bed houses and one two-bed unit.

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HMOComplete

House To Seven-Bed En-Suite HMO

Eastleigh, Hampshire

Bedrooms, all en suite

A house converted to an HMO in Eastleigh, built around a full-length navy kitchen that runs the depth of the plan into a rooflit dining room.

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HMOComplete

Eight-Bed Ultra-Luxury HMO

Portsmouth, Hampshire

An eight-bedroom ultra-luxury HMO in Portsmouth, built around a rooflit living and dining space at the back of the house.

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New BuildComplete

Vacant Corner Plot To New Home

Hackney, London

Feasibility to construction

A new home on a vacant corner plot, bookending an existing Hackney terrace behind a curved wall of green glazed brick.

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New BuildComplete

New Home In The New Forest

Lymington, Hampshire

Feasibility to construction

A new family home on a private plot inside the New Forest, tiled in terracotta across both roof and walls to sit inside a protected landscape.

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Class QComplete

Class Q Barn To Dwelling

Exmoor National Park

Route

Class Q prior approval

Approved

2024

Thistle role

Approval to construction

An agricultural barn on a working farm in Somerset, converted to a house under Class Q and delivered through to completion.

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Residential DevelopmentConsented

One House To Four Homes

Crawley, West Sussex

A single large plot assessed for capacity, then masterplanned and consented as four new homes through a phased planning strategy.

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ResidentialConsented

An Accessible Family Home

South Downs

Brief

Level access throughout

A family home reconfigured and extended around a daughter's mobility needs, in a landscape where even the external lighting was a planning matter.

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Office to FlatsOn site

Regency Offices To Four Flats

Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire

A Regency building on Kenilworth Road being converted from offices into four flats, from the basement up into the roof.

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Commercial ConversionAt tender

Methodist Church To Offices

Leigh, Greater Manchester

A Gothic Methodist church on Wigan Road, converted into offices without losing the stained glass or the vaulted roof.

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HMOOn site

Offices To Six Flats, Plus An Eleven-Bed HMO

Southampton, Hampshire

HMO Rooms

Apartments

A former freight office and the six-bed HMO beside it, redeveloped as six apartments and an eleven-bedroom co-living scheme for professionals.

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HMOComplete

Six-Bed En-Suite HMO For Professionals

Eastleigh, Hampshire

Bedrooms, all en suite

An all en suite 6 bedroom HMO, finished to a high specification, located in Eastleigh.

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HMOComplete

Seven-Bed Luxury HMO, Design To Build

Eastleigh, Hampshire

Bedrooms, all en suite

Thistle role

Design to construction

Market

Professional lets

A seven-bedroom luxury HMO for professionals in the centre of Eastleigh, taken from first design through to finished build.

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HMOComplete

Three-Bed House To Seven-Bed En-Suite HMO

Portsmouth, Hampshire

A three-bedroom city centre family house turned into a seven-bedroom high-end HMO, every room en suite.

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HMOComplete

Seven-Bed HMO, Feasibility To Approvals

Portsmouth, Hampshire

Bedrooms

Thistle role

Feasibility to approvals

Communal

Rooflit lantern room

A seven-bedroom HMO in Portsmouth, taken from a feasibility study of the existing property through to planning and building regulations approval.

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HMOComplete

Seven-Bed HMO With Loft En Suites

Southampton, Hampshire

A seven-bedroom HMO in Southampton delivered to an essential specification, with en suite rooms worked into the roof under new rooflights.

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HMOComplete

Seven-Bed High-End HMO

Southend-on-Sea, Essex

A high-end seven-bedroom HMO in Southend-on-Sea, with seven individually let en suite rooms and shared amenities.

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Co-LivingComplete

Victorian Terrace To Eight-Bed Luxury Co-Living

Southsea, Portsmouth

An eight-bedroom luxury co-living conversion inside a bay-fronted Victorian terrace in Southsea.

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High-End ResidentialOn site

Bungalow To Contemporary Family Home

Kings Worthy, Winchester

Feasibility to construction

A bungalow on a corner plot, reworked internally and extended into a gable-ended house with vaulted ceilings over the open-plan heart.

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HMOComplete

A 22-Bed HMO, Rebuilt

Croydon, South London

Existing

22-bed local authority HMO

Proposed

Fewer, larger en-suite rooms

Thistle role

Stage 4 and delivery

An existing 22-bedroom local authority HMO reconfigured into fewer but far larger en-suite rooms, with Thistle running the technical package and the build.

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Some of these were delivered by HMO Designers, our sister practice within the Thistle Group. Each one says so on its own page.