Newtons Cove

An external works scheme for the conversion of a Grade II listed 1930s modernist country house into high-value apartments, together with two new residential blocks within the grounds, designed by Broadway Malyan Architects.

Completed in 1938 and designed by Adie, Button & Partners, Charters in Ascot is regarded as a landmark of 1930s modernism. The house inherited mature parkland from the earlier mid-Victorian estate, but its defining 1930s landscape features include the cascade and pools of the “Water Features”, the Portland stone terrace, colonnade, steps, planters and the sweeping curved drive to the main entrance.

The new landscape scheme reinstates the historic parkland structure — including the water gardens — and introduces new driveways and entrances, as well as courtyards, terraces and roof gardens. The project won the Evening Standard Award for Best Residential Scheme in 2008.

A £2 million “sea wall” project to protect the coast line whilst providing a contemporary promenade for the benefit of the local community.

Enplan were asked by engineers Lewin Fryer & Partners (Black & Veatch) to establish a design concept for the scheme alongside the engineering solution, and to undertake the detailed design and hard  surfacing, finishes and planting. 

Twin Portland Stone walls are curved in two places to mimic the local Dorset cliffline.  These walls are split by a central flight of steps connecting the promenade to an upper level and the adjoining residential area. Working within an SSSI, the form of the scheme and the working methods had to safeguard the local ecological and geological features. 

Winner of the BCIA Environment Award 2004, and short-listed for the ‘Prime  Minister’s Better Public Building Award’. The judges said “This scheme represents a visually important contribution to the defence of the sea wall in Weymouth. But more than that, it is a excellent example of a contemporary promenade with a ‘corniche’ atmosphere”.