The York Handmade Brick Company,
one of the leading independent brickmakers in the country, has been shortlisted
in two categories in the prestigious 2022 Brick Awards.
York Handmade, based at Alne, near
Easingwold, in North Yorkshire, was short-listed in the Individual Housing and
the Refurbishment categories.
York Handmade provided the bricks
for Green Acres, a stunning new detached house in Effingham in Surrey, and for Holy
Trinity Church in the heart of Sunderland.
The Brick Awards will be presented at
a glittering ceremony at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in the heart of London’s West
End on Thursday November 10. Run by the Brick Development Association in
conjunction with Building magazine, they are the brick industry’s Oscars.
York Handmade Chairman David
Armitage said: “We are tremendously proud to have been shortlisted for these two
fantastic projects this year.
“Huge thanks are due to the management
team and employees at York Handmade for their imagination, enterprise and hard
work, which all combined to make these projects so successful and so memorable.
“It is vitally important to stress
that these two short-listed entries are completely different jobs in design and
execution, graphically illustrating our ability to work in a wide variety of
colours and styles. We believe we can tackle any brickwork project
successfully.”
Green Acres is located in the
picturesque Surrey village of Effingham and is a brand-new house in the
Georgian style. The old house was demolished and reset in the existing grounds with
the new house featuring five bedrooms and five bathrooms, with the addition of
stables and garages.
York Handmade provided 30,000
traditional bricks, suitable for the neo-Georgian house. Owner Lizzy Jackson
commented: “York Handmade’s bricks were the first we saw when we started
researching which bricks we wanted for our house – and they were the best.
Their stylish look, their authenticity and their roughish texture were ideal
for our house, built in the Georgian style. We are absolutely delighted with
the result, we couldn’t be happier.
“They look especially brilliant at
night, with the moonlight shining on them. We were thrilled to hear the
brickwork for our house is up for such a prestigious award and we couldn’t be
prouder. We wish York Handmade the very best of luck on the awards night.”
Meanwhile York Handmade also played
a pivotal role in the conservation-led restoration of Grade I listed Holy
Trinity Church in the heart of old Sunderland. This restoration has transformed
Sunderland’s first parish church and civic hub into a spectacular space for
connecting and sharing people, stories and heritage through conservation repair
and sensitive adaptation
Holy Trinity, which was built in
1719, is a very early Georgian, Grade I listed church, which had been closed
since 1988. Since completion, the building has been removed from Historic
England’s At Risk Register.
York Handmade has a tremendous
track record in the Brick Awards, being highly commended for its work on St Albans Cathedral last year
and for both the Peter Hall Performing Arts Centre at Perse School in Cambridge
and the Loxley Stables residential housing project in Hertfordshire in 2019. In
2018 the company was honoured for its involvement in the acclaimed
Westgate Centre in the heart of historic Oxford and for the magnificent Halifax
Library.
Going further back, York Handmade
won a hat-trick of categories in 2012 with the triumph of Four Oaks in Little
Bedwyn; Tupgill Cellar, near Middleham, North Yorkshire; and Chetham’s School
of Music, Manchester, while other prestigious wins included the Walled Garden
at Scampston Hall in 2004 and St Brigid’s Church, Belfast, in 1995.
Link to the official Brick
Awards shortlist:
https://www.brick.org.uk
For further information, please
contact David Armitage of York Handmade on 01347 838881 or Robert Beaumont of
Robert Beaumont Associates on 01423 323139