Residential architecture for Stokesley properties, combining measured design work with a careful appraisal of local character and landscape context.
From the first idea to planning and technical drawings, choose the support your project needs. Each stage has a clear scope and fee.
More useful space, better daylight and a clearer relationship with the garden.
Explore this service 02Roof-space feasibility, stair layouts and technical design for a more capable home.
Explore this service 03Site-led design and early feasibility for replacement homes and small developments.
Explore this service 04A proportionate planning route supported by clear drawings and local context.
Explore this service 05Coordinated technical drawings that carry the approved design into detail.
Explore this service 06Early appraisal of access, constraints, capacity and likely consultant input.
Explore this service 07Planning-led layouts for HMOs, flat conversions and other residential changes of use.
Explore this serviceSelected projects and design studies from the practice. Explore the brief, design and thinking behind each proposal.
A brick rear extension in Stokesley with a pitched tiled roof, glazed gable and garden-facing doors. The design combines traditional materials with generous daylight and a direct connection to the patio and garden.
The project involved the design of a single-storey rear extension to create a larger open-plan kitchen, dining and family space. The proposal was developed to improve the connection between the house and garden while retaining natural light within the existing rooms. Hepburn Architects prepared the design, planning drawings and submission information for the project.
A sensitive yet bold reinvention of a Victorian stone villa. A single-storey rear extension in charred timber cladding creates a deliberate counterpoint to the original sandstone façade — dark against light, new against old. Full-height glazing and folding doors open the extended living space entirely to the garden, while a crisp stone terrace and lush planted borders mediate between architecture and landscape. Heritage preserved, contemporary life enabled. A quiet confidence in the dialogue between past and present.
Read clients’ own accounts of working with Hepburn Architects.
Stokesley's historic core, established residential streets and relationship with open countryside create different design conditions within a compact area. We look at the building's age, materials, plot pattern, views and landscape before deciding whether an addition should be quiet and recessive or clearly contemporary.
A well-planned extension should make the existing house work harder. We examine where daylight enters, how the garden is reached and whether circulation wastes useful floor area. The resulting scheme can combine remodelling with new construction, reducing unnecessary intervention while concentrating budget on the spaces that matter.
Rural-edge and infill proposals need disciplined feasibility work. Landscape, ecology, access, drainage and the settlement context may influence whether development is appropriate and how it should be arranged. We identify likely consultant inputs and planning risks without presenting early design work as a promise of consent.
We establish the brief, site conditions and likely approval route before fixing the design. Once the spatial approach is agreed, the work can progress into coordinated information for planning, structural input and Building Regulations without treating those stages as separate design exercises.
North Yorkshire Council is generally the local planning authority for Stokesley. The exact site still matters: depending on the property and its precise location, heritage, landscape, ecology, flood risk or highway evidence may be requested. Land within the North York Moors National Park is handled by the National Park Authority, so boundary checks are important for sites outside the town.
Planning and Building Regulations are separate approval systems. We can prepare the architectural information for both, but every decision remains with the relevant authority or approved inspector.
Each commission is scoped around the decisions the client needs to make. Later stages are not assumed before the earlier evidence is understood.
We discuss the property, priorities, budget and programme, then identify the surveys and early checks needed.
Options are tested in plan and three dimensions before the agreed proposal is prepared for the appropriate approval route.
The approved design is developed with construction details and coordinated consultant information for Building Control and pricing.
North Yorkshire Council generally handles applications in Stokesley. Sites within the North York Moors National Park boundary are handled by the National Park Authority.
Yes. A feasibility appraisal can review constraints, likely information requirements and an appropriate design direction, but it cannot guarantee planning permission.
Yes. We can develop an approved design into coordinated technical information for Building Control and construction, working with structural engineers and other specialists where their input is required.
Tell David about your property in Stokesley, what you want to change and what matters most. We will help you identify a useful first step.
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