Client: City & Country Residential
Location: Newmarket, Suffolk
Architect: Cowper Griffith Architects
Engineer: Roberts Hay Partnership

Brief
Set in just over three hectares of Suffolk countryside, Herringswell Manor, a private house which has been used as a Japanese school, includes an unusual Japanese temple, tea house and archery house. City & Country Residential appointed Liz Lake Associates to help satisfy planning conditions for the building's conversion into 29 prestigious houses and flats.

Approach
Following a detailed tree condition survey, we prepared a tree removal plan, planting plans for the grounds of the house and wider estate as a whole, together with hard and soft details for the Japanese-style garden.

Outcome
A sympathetic and evocative planting scheme has created an atmospheric setting for this prestigious conversion, drawing together the varied strands of its history to create a cohesive, high-quality and contemporary finish. A detailed management plan has also been written, setting out a strategy for optimising the visual amenity and nature conservation interests of the grounds through restoration and sympathetic conservation management.