Lime plaster and mortar are the backbone of traditional British architecture. Unlike modern cement-based alternatives, lime-based materials are flexible and breathable, making them ideal for historic buildings and sustainable new builds alike.

 At Alex Oliver Associates, we use lime in our projects for the following reasons:

• Allows buildings to ‘breathe’, preventing damp issues

• More sustainable than cement-based products

• Provides a softer, more authentic aesthetic

A timeless material for both heritage and contemporary homes.

This Grade II* listed Georgian townhouse, situated in a historic market town, required extensive external and internal restoration.

Over the past ninety years, the building has undergone various changes of use, resulting in the loss of many historic features.

We therefore undertook a sensitive restoration, carefully repairing the building’s historic fabric, removing the inappropriate modern partitions and reintroducing the elegance befitting the building’s Georgian heritage.

For this project in Marlborough, we transformed a pair of Grade II Listed buildings which had previously been used as a car dealership.

We treated the buildings as separate, and replaced the awkward 1970s single frontage with two distinct timber shopfronts.

The new shopfronts were carefully designed to be both visually appealing and more in keeping with the individual styles of these historic buildings.