Future Heritage is an unusual entity, a company that focuses on restoring historic buildings, or integrating sensitively designed new buildings in Historic Towns and Conservation Areas. As the name proclaims the company seeks to reconcile past and future both by providing historic buildings with new uses, and creating new buildings that respect and enhance the setting of which they are part.

MD Stephen Green states ‘We aim to use a historic building or setting as the back drop for creating interesting and often contemporary living spaces, with particular emphasis on integrating a building with its own external space. For instance, almost every apartment we have created in the past seven years has had the benefit of a balcony, terrace or
roof garden’.

Future Heritage, has completed more than 26 projects in Bath, a city which, owing to its designation by Unesco as a World Heritage Site, has a wide range of planning and other constraints.

Having successfully completed recent mixed-use projects at St Swithins Yard and The Tramshed, Bath, which between them incorporated 48 apartments, Future Heritage has spent the last three years designing a number of schemes incorporating houses, ranging from individual mews houses, to a substantial family house with nearly 4,000 ft of accommodation.

Whilst many bigger developers are preoccupied with standard house types, turnover and the pressures of being a Plc., Future Heritage concentrate on a smaller number of schemes, tailoring the design to suit the building or the site concerned, with the ability to build to purchaser’s own requirements. In all cases, the company has the luxury of having the time to concentrate on the detail.