The Avon decides your ground floor
Evesham sits inside a loop of the River Avon, and the town has been flooded badly enough,
often enough, that most owners here already know which side of the line they are on. If
you are in it, the renovation changes shape: a solid floor instead of suspended timber,
closed-cell insulation that does not act like a sponge, sockets and consumer unit raised
well above the likely level, and a kitchen where the bottom carcasses can be pulled and
replaced without stripping the whole run.
That is not a more expensive kitchen. It is the same kitchen, planned so the next flood
costs you a fortnight rather than a rebuild.
Not everywhere in Evesham floods
Greenhill and the higher ground north of the town are a different conversation
altogether, and it would be dishonest to sell flood specification to a house that sits
well above the river. We check the flood map for your address before designing anything.
If it does not apply, we say so and spend your budget on something that does.
Three towns in one, really
Bengeworth across the bridge, Hampton to the west and the historic centre around the
Almonry and the bell tower each carry different housing. The centre has Georgian and
earlier stock in a conservation area; Bengeworth and Hampton run from Victorian terraces
through inter-war semis to modern estates. A renovation brief that works on one does not
transfer to the others, which is the main reason we come and look.
Market gardening left its mark
The Vale’s growing heritage means plenty of properties here started life attached
to land — smallholdings, packing sheds, outbuildings that were never houses. Those
conversions are some of the best projects in the county and some of the most
misunderstood: change of use, structural adequacy and insulation all have to be
established before anyone talks about kitchens.
