Gardens here
Market town with a protected core — the high street runs past 17th-century timber framing, Georgian townhouses and a run of colour-washed cottages, most of it inside a conservation area. Two ponds sit right by the centre, a legacy of the town growing up around a bishop’s deer park. Gardens here tend to be compact and period-shaped; a short walk out and the plots open up.
Working the area
South east of Winchester, on the Meon & Hamble ground — another stretch of the same deliberate move into more of Hampshire’s still-driveable ground. The studio works best when the brief is meaningful, wherever the postcode.
Material decisions
Reclaimed brick and timber suit a street of colour-washed cottages; stone reads better than a composite anywhere near the Palace ruins. Further out, the fuller studio palette still applies — porcelain, sleeper structures, a coordinated build from bare ground. Either way, the same sub-bases and mortar beds go in, regardless of postcode.
In practice
The studio archive doesn't yet feature a Bishop’s Waltham project. Full garden transformation, Fareham — a complete front-and-rear rebuild in Kandla Grey porcelain — is the clearest indication of the standard a Bishop’s Waltham brief would get. The work is the same wherever it happens; only the postcode is new.
For what curtilage listing actually restricts on a high-street property here, see building next to a listed wall.
Discuss a Bishop’s Waltham briefFrequently asked
Do you take on projects in Bishop's Waltham?
Yes. Bishop’s Waltham is on the studio’s coverage map, on the Meon & Hamble ground south east of Winchester. We take on selected briefs here rather than every enquiry, given the drive — a meaningful project is worth the trip.
Does the conservation area or a listed building affect what I can build?
Often, yes. Much of the high street sits inside a conservation area and a good number of properties are listed outright, which can bring curtilage listing into play for garden walls and outbuildings built before 1948. We cover exactly what that restricts, and what it doesn't, in building next to a listed wall.
Have you completed a project in Bishop's Waltham?
Not yet — Bishop’s Waltham only joined the coverage map recently. The nearest comparable build on record is the full garden transformation in Fareham, a fair reference for the standard a Bishop’s Waltham brief would be built to.