Bath-based specialist property development firm Longacre has completed its latest project – the renovation of a Grade I listed building on one of the city’s grandest streets.
Work to convert Fitzroy House, pictured, on Great Pulteney Street into 19 high-quality apartments started in spring last year.
Dating from around 1790 and originally five Georgian townhouses, the property was converted into a hotel in the 1900s before becoming sheltered housing for the elderly in the 1975.
Owner Anchor Housing Association sold it to Longacre in 2016 after the cost of extensive renovations, including significant fire compartmentation upgrades, became prohibitive.
The charity had approached more than 30 housing associations to sell Fitzroy House but none made an offer.
Longacre’s refurbishment work has included removing modern additions such as suspended ceilings, doors, internal partitions and corridors and reinstating some of the building’s historic characteristics including stone floors, front doors, steps to the basement and decorative cornicing.
The project follows previous refurbishments of historic Bath buildings by the firm, including the conversion of Grade I listed One Bilbury Lane, a dilapidated and redundant five-floor property, into six luxury apartments and a bespoke penthouse apartment.
Other schemes include the renovation of a Grade II listed property to create19 flats and the reconfiguration of two vacant council-owned terraced properties into high-quality apartments.
Longacre co-founder Mark Tyrrell said: “Work began on transforming Fitzroy House just over a year ago and we are delighted
with the progress that has been made.
“We take pride in our work and have been involved with a number of projects in Bath, which have taken redundant listed buildings and sympathetically renovated and restored them creating elegant and stylish housing.
“We are pleased to welcome the new homeowners at Fitzroy House, which now sits proudly on one of Bath’s most famous streets.”
Longacre is owned by Mark Tyrrell, who previously worked as a director for The Unite Group and Deeley Freed Estates in Bristol, and Julian Emery, who runs the family firm Emerys of Bath.
The firm recently unveiled its new show flat at the development – an elegant two-bedroom courtyard apartment.
Apartments on the lower levels have gardens or courtyard space, while those on higher levels enjoy stunning views of Bath and have access to communal gardens.
There is lift access to most of the flats and onsite car parking for selected apartments.
Savills Bath are acting as agents for the scheme. Prices start from £445,000.
