David Sleight Conservation

David Sleight Conservation Projects have included:

• Sulgrave Manor Northamptonshire

A lime render and pebble dash was placed on the side cheeks of these roof windows, it was designed to match and replace the original material. These works were part of re-roofing two elevations of the Manor.!!

• Braybrooke Northamptonshire

This small wall, attached to the house, had been neglected and was
repaired with cement.
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• The Old House and Cottage East Haddon

Dated 1691 this house was modernised in the 19th Century.
Work to be carried out included installing a limecrete floor in the Cottage and rebedding the Yorkstone floor. Removing the cement render on the front of the house and repointing. Removing the cement render on the rear of the house and re-rendering on top of the cob walling. Removing the modern plaster within the cottage and replaing it with a lime render. At the same time the asbestos roof sheets on the Cottage were replaced with thatch.
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• Althorp House - The Old Laundry.

Due to water entering through the slates, the lime ceiling within the building had to be replaced. The ceiling was still in place and the laths were sound so the original ceiling was taken down leaving the laths in place.
All existing laths were re-nailed.
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• Hopthorne Cottage Barby Northants

This cottage has suffered from structural movement over recent years. The end elevation shows the cracks and tell tales. The main contractor has taken the stonework down and installed a concrete foundation to help counter the movement problems. Our involvement is to rebuild the solid stone walls, which are 22" thick!
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• Sibbertoft - Grade II Timber Framed listed building

This Grade II timber framed Listed Building had been re-rendered in the 1980's with a cement render!! This had cracked when the structure seasonally moved, these cracks then let water into the structure and into the property.

The cracked panels were removed, any lose brick panels taken down and rebuilt and then re-rendered with a non-hydraulic mix. Finally three coats of external grade limewash were applied.
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• Churchyard Cross. (Grade 1) Church of St James Somerton Oxfordshire

The medieval cross stands in the churchyard of the church at Somerton. It's shaft stands approximately 1.5 metres high above a square base, comprising of a square 4-step marlstone plinth, the lowest step of which has a deep chamfered nosing. The head of the cross has almost indecipherable carvings on all 4 faces, and the top corners of the base are carved with heads. The cross was dismantled some time ago as it appeared unstable and the iron cramps were exerting pressure on the stonework. The work involved carefully replacing the existing iron cramps with stainless steel. One section of one of the stones was in two pieces and this was dowelled together. The base stones were then rebedded and repointed with a lime based mortar.
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• Kings Sutton - Window repairs to The Church of St Peter's and St Paul's.

Seven windows are being conserved on the North Aisle, South Aisle and Chancel.

Work involved cleaning down, pinning and grouting cracked stonework, sheltercoating and painting the iron window grills. Read more»

• St Mary's Church, Bloxham Oxfordshire

The 200 year old Sun Dial lay at the bottom of the Southern Elevation of the Tower. It was taken down some years ago and was re-instated in its original position on the external wall against the bell chamber window.
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• Limewashing at Guilsborough, Northamptonshire
	This property was limewashed with three coats of Buttermilk coloured pure limewash applied onto a porous background it will enable the structure to breath. The house has been previously lime rendered onto a cob structure so any modern paint system would have been detrimental.

• Wormleighton Manor Gatehouse
Wormleighton Manor Gatehouse and Tower Cottage is a Grade II* Listed Building. It was built for Sir Robert, first Lord Spencer in 1613. It is mainly Ironstone ashlar, with moulded stone cornices, string courses and parapets. The lath and plaster ceiling under the archway was in need of repair. Although the laths were in a sound condtion the plaster ceiling was taken down due to its bad state of repair. Traditional haired coarse stuff was used together with a lime rich top coat and limewash. Details»»

• Repairs to Clarke's Bridge, Grantham Canal
	Client: British Waterways Main Contractor: Galliford Try This is a Listed Building: Grade II and Listed Building Consent was required. Extensive repairs were carried out to strengthen and improve the structure. A new concrete saddle was placed to improve the weight bearing capacity for vehicular access. Brick repairs were carried out involving rebuilding the parapets, repairs to the spandrels and the arch brickwork. Details»»

• The Stone House, Thornby, Northamptonshire.
This house is constructed from Northamptonshire stone which is quite a soft stone that can erode when in an exposed, aggressive environment.

The areas of the house that were conserved were in and around the ground floor front windows.

• The Laurels, Walgrave

This house is made with soft machine made brick from the late 19th century. Due to movement within the structure, some of the gauged brick arches had slipped and pushed forward, due to debris dropping behind the arch.

The work involved repositioning, lifting and re-laying the arches. It also involved pinning, using stainless steel pins and grouting using a hydraulic lime based grout.
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• The Coal Store, Guilsborough

The cob barn is a central feature in Guilsborough but it has been suffering from a common earth building problem of water entering through the base due to a raised ground level.

The adjacent ground level land was lowered and the brickwork foundation walls were rebuilt and re-pointed
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