The Challenge

Before any design work, the owner needed to understand what was realistically possible in a manor house of significant heritage value, located within a context of stringent planning, heritage, and fire safety constraints.

The central question was simple — yet critical:
is it worth proceeding, and within what limits?

The EURITMIA Approach

EURITMIA – Architecture, Territory and Heritage prepared a Preliminary Assessment Report, conceived as a technical decision-making tool, based on:

• A rigorous typological, constructional, and heritage analysis of the building

• Comprehensive cross-checking of planning, territorial, heritage, and fire safety legislation

• Clear identification of absolute limits (non-negotiable constraints)

• Objective assessment of potential use and intervention scenarios
  
  

No design assumptions.
No concealed intentions.
Only legal and technical facts.

Conclusions

Permissible

• Retention of residential use

• Conservation, restoration, and rehabilitation works compatible with the building’s typology and heritage significance

• Internal works compliant with the applicable regulatory frameworks
  
  

Conditional

• Changes of use subject to binding statutory consents

• Structural interventions requiring strict planning and heritage approval

• Full compliance with Fire Safety in Buildings regulations
  
  

Not Permissible

• Increases in volume or alterations to the building footprint

• Interventions that compromise the manor house’s character

• Incompatible uses with applicable planning and protection regimes
  
  

Outcome

Before committing to design development, the client obtained:

• Complete clarity regarding risks and constraints

• A significant reduction in legal and financial uncertainty

• A robust technical basis on which to decide whether to proceed — or not
  
  

Confidentiality Notice

For reasons of data protection and client confidentiality, this case study does not disclose precise locations, property identification details, or references to specific applications, opinions, or statutory approvals.
The content presented reflects exclusively EURITMIA’s methodology, technical rigour, and professional positioning.

At EURITMIA, design begins by knowing exactly where the law allows intervention — and where it does not.