COMMERCIAL
Project: Eagle House, 161 City Road, London
Client: Mount Anvil
The Eagle is a new development consisting of 26 floors on City Road, Old Street, London, designed by award-winning urban architects, Terry Farrell & Partners.
Eagle House, part of the main Eagle development, retains the original 1933 Art Deco building. Barwin were appointed to carry out external refurbishment and redecoration of the building façade.
Scope of works:
- Decoration of the façade, using Dulux weathershield in various colours
- Render, using Portland Stone mix on EML with scribed ashlar lines
- Installation of new, bespoke reconstituted stone window sills
- Portland stone render to ground floor incorporating scribed ashlar lines
Project: 47 – 49 Tooley Street, London
Client: Savills
This is a Grade II listed building, first listed in the 1970’s.
Previously warehouse, the building is now office space. Built in the 1860s, restored and interior rebuilt late 20th Century. By W Snooke and H Stock. Yellow brick with stucco and artificial stone dressings, 20th Century roof extensions above cornice.
The building comprises 4 storeys (ground floor including recent mezzanine level) and attic, 3 bays. Altered ground floor has tall, segmental-headed openings with keystones now filled in at top to form mezzanine level, open below as walkway. Stucco banded rustication to this level. Slightly recessed rounded corner angles. Upper 3 floors articulated by colossal round-arched recesses with architraves and keystones supporting cornice and resting on blocking course above cornice to ground floor; moulded string at spring. 1st and 2nd floor segmental-headed windows in inner, segmental-arched recess. 3rd floor round-headed windows in round-arched recesses have moulded sills inside recesses continuing as plain band outside. Similarly treated 5-bay returns. The last remaining warehouse building of former Cotton’s Wharf. Cotton’s was almost entirely destroyed in the fire of Tooley Street (1861) and was immediately rebuilt. It was converted into a coldstore in the 1880s by the proprietors of adjacent Hay’s Wharf. Late C20 buildings have replaced the other buildings on the site.
Scope of Works:
- Erect Scaffolding to all elevations
- Arrange site welfare & compliance
- Cut out and replace defective bricks
- Rake out and re-point brickwork
- Full DOFF cleaning to all elevations
- Rake out and replace damaged mastic
- Render repairs with lime based render
- Full redecoration of all previously painted areas, including render and metalwork
Project: Stockley Park, Uxbridge, London
Client: Stockley Park
Stockley Park is a commercial office space located in Uxbridge in the London Borough of Hillingdon. Barwin carried external cleaning via cherry pickers.
Scope of works:
- External cleaning to powder coated frames and cladding
- Detergent cleaning and jet washing to flat roof areas
- Cleaning of all glazing
