Design & Build · Cumbria
One team, from the first sketch to the final snag
Architect, planning, project management, trades and materials, all held by one appointment, and one person you can ring. No handing you between three companies who each blame the other two.
- 27
- Years building
- 340+
- Projects delivered
- £185m
- Value completed
- 92%
- Clients who return
Most building projects go wrong in the gaps between people, not on site.
Appoint an architect, then a project manager, then a builder, and you have created three contracts, three programmes and three versions of who is at fault. The drawings arrive that cannot be built to the budget. The builder prices the risk they cannot see. You referee.
We removed the gaps by doing all of it. Our architect draws it knowing our team will build it, and our team prices it knowing our architect drew it. When something is discovered behind a wall, and something always is, there is nobody to pass it to.
One team,
not three
The difference is not really the convenience. It is who carries the risk when something moves, and on a building project, something always moves.
The usual route
Three appointments
- ×Three contracts, three fee structures, three programmes.
- ×The design is finished before anyone has priced it properly. Tenders come back over budget and the drawings are reworked at your cost.
- ×A problem behind a wall becomes a dispute about whose drawing was wrong.
- ×Every delay has three explanations and no owner.
- ×You are the only person with the whole picture, and it is not your job.
Stone & Fell
One appointment
- ✓One contract, one programme, one invoice, one number to ring.
- ✓The design is costed by the people who will build it, as it is being drawn.
- ✓A problem behind a wall is ours. We redesign and rebuild around it without a variation argument.
- ✓One programme, one owner, and a weekly report whether the news is good or not.
- ✓You make decisions. We hold the whole picture.
See how a project
actually runs
Two minutes with Richard on site, walking through what happens between the first visit and the handover.
- 0:00Why we do the design and the build together
- 0:34A first visit, and what we look for
- 1:12Taking a scheme through National Park consent
- 1:58On site at Fellside Barn
- 2:20What happens after handover
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Designed and built
by the same people
Barn conversions, new houses, extensions and listed repair across Cumbria and the Lakes.
What it is like
to work with us
We will put you in touch with any client here, and several who are not.
Two previous applications had been refused. Stone & Fell redrew it, took it back to the National Park themselves, and it went through first time. That alone paid for the design fee twice over.
They found rot in two trusses in week five. No argument, no variation, no phone calls between three companies. They just redesigned the repair and got on with it, and I found out at the weekly report.
We lived upstairs for eleven months with two children. It was never silent, but it was never chaotic either, and it finished on the date they gave us at the very start.
What sold it was the weekly report. Photographs, spend against budget, and what was happening next. After a previous build where I had to ring to find anything out, that alone was worth the money.
They spent four months tracking down reclaimed slate rather than talking us into new. Nobody would ever know, which I think is the point.
The first visit is free.
The design is not.
We charge a design fee, and we would rather tell you here than at the end of a friendly first meeting. Paying for design properly buys you a scheme drawn to suit your building and your budget, rather than a free sketch produced to win a build contract. If you go ahead with us, it comes back off the build.
against your build
- ✓First consultation and site visit, free and with no obligation
- ✓Measured survey, design drawings and a real cost plan
- ✓The drawings are yours to keep, whoever builds them
- ✓Fixed and agreed in writing before any work starts
Start with a free conversation
Tell us about the building. We read every enquiry ourselves and reply within two working days.
- Two hours at the property, entirely at our cost
- An honest view on feasibility, planning risk and likely cost
- In writing afterwards, with no obligation and no follow-up sales call
Prefer to talk? Call 015394 00000 or email studio@stoneandfell.co.uk.