Grade I & II listed homes. Bath townhouses. Farmhouses, rectories, oak-frame barns and architect-led new-builds. Concealed cable routes, restoration-grade fittings, conservation-officer documentation.
Direct: 07889 334849 · Dan Stevens
This is our slower, higher-spec service line. If you're refurbishing a period home, specifying electrical on a listed-building project, or coordinating trades on behalf of a private client, this is for you.
Doing a full rewire on a Listed or period property? See our dedicated Heritage Rewires → page for pricing, conservation-area methodology and city-by-city coverage across Mid Somerset and surrounding areas.
Grade I, Grade II and Grade II* residences. Georgian townhouses, stone farmhouses, Victorian rectories, medieval hall-houses. You care about the fabric of the building and you want one electrician on the job — not a rotating crew.
We work from your drawings. Design-stage input on cable routes, lighting layout and load distribution. Coordination with your main contractor's programme. Clear RAMS, O&M manuals and as-built documentation in the format you expect.
We prepare drawings and specifications that make a conservation officer's job easy. Proposed cable routes, fixing methodologies, details of any intrusive works, and a clear statement of reversibility. Approvals go smoother when the paperwork is right.
We don't sub-contract the complicated bits. Dan is on site for every heritage project, every day. The scope below covers what we do — any combination, any phasing.
Restoration-grade sconces, chandeliers, picture lights and reading lamps specified in brass, bronze or patinated finishes. Dimmable loads calculated correctly for LED filament lamps. Scene-ready wiring with proper dimmable feeds — period-appropriate plates and invisible cable runs. Whole-house programmable scene systems (Lutron, Rako etc) handled via specialist integrator partners.
Heating, lighting, audio and blinds on a single control layer — without a single visible sensor. Concealed PIRs in skirting voids, hidden keypad plates behind panelled walls, discrete zone amps in plant cupboards. The building looks original. The functionality is 21st-century.
Full or partial rewires through existing service voids, behind lifted floorboards, through under-stair cupboards and roof-void runs. Where a new route is unavoidable we chase only with consent, in lime-compatible base coat. Original plaster, lath and oak protected.
Click Deco and Deco Plus are our default for screwless metallic finishes (chrome, brass, antique brass, brushed steel) on most jobs. For period interiors we also work with Dowsing & Reynolds, Corston, Forbes & Lomax, Buster + Punch and Hamilton via trade specification — solid brass, antique bronze, polished nickel, Bakelite repro to match ironmongery. Switches and sockets that match the building, not the builder's catalogue.
Condition reporting done with care. Live insulation testing on critical circuits only, dead testing elsewhere. Honest coding — C3 observations aren't failures. Report written for owner, agent, insurer or conservation officer. Priced per property after a walk-round — listed and period homes need more time than a standard test.
A modern BS 7671-compliant 18th-edition board is non-negotiable. Where it lives is. Pantry, boot-room, understair, plant cupboard, purpose-built bespoke joinery housing — we plan the position with your architect so the board does its job without announcing itself.
Every route surveyed before first fix. Every chase documented before it's cut. Every cover plate sourced before the wiring goes in.
Heritage work is slower than commodity electrical. The method below is what keeps the risk — and the surprises — out of the programme.
Thirty-minute free call to understand the brief. If it sounds right for both sides, a paid survey follows — usually half a day, on site, drawings in hand, talking through rooms, routes and constraints.
Paid survey (£295 for most projects). Output is a written design report with proposed cable routes marked on your drawings, fitting schedule, load schedule, consent implications, and a fixed-price quote valid for 90 days.
We liaise directly with your architect, interior designer and, where required, your conservation officer. Any revisions sit in writing. Listed-building consent applications prepared on request — we don't start work without the paperwork.
Installation phased around plastering, joinery and other trades. Dust containment, daily clean, protection to floors and original features. RAMS issued before any works on listed fabric. Photograph log kept for as-built documentation.
Accessories installed once decoration is complete. Every circuit tested to BS 7671, readings logged. Smart scenes programmed with you on site. Everything commissioned, labelled, and demonstrated to you room by room.
NAPIT certificate, EIC, as-built drawings, lamp schedule, fitting datasheets, smart-system credentials. Followed by a six-month check-in on the house. You have Dan's direct mobile — always.
Detailed case studies published with permission as each project completes. Contact us directly for addresses and references from any live job below.
Whole-house rewire through existing voids. Forbes & Lomax unlacquered brass plates throughout. Kitchen pendants, integrated joinery lighting, dimmable circuits ready for the architect’s specified scene-control system.
Returning client. Second phase following 2024 main-house works. New studio annexe electrical, vaulted-ceiling pendant runs, external lighting around courtyard, Cat 6A structured cabling throughout. Ongoing through Q3 2026.
Georgian townhouse where the client refused to cut anything. Brief: add modern lighting control, heating zoning and audio without touching the original joinery or cornicework. Full brief delivered using existing service penetrations only.
We quote a fixed price after the survey. No open-ended charging, no creep. Typical bands below — every project sits on the detail.
Partial rewire, single-room smart integration, Bath townhouse refresh, small cottage consent works.
Whole-house period rewire with heritage lighting design, dimmable circuits and scene-ready wiring. 8–14 weeks on-site.
Full architect-led refurbishment, barn conversion, multi-phase listed-building project. Priced per phase.
Paid survey £295, credited in full against project value on instruction. We take on eight to twelve heritage projects a year — deliberately.
We read every enquiry personally. Expect a reply within one working day. If your project is time-critical, call Dan on 07889 334849.
If you're an architect or interior designer enquiring on behalf of a client, please include the project address, the RIBA stage, and who we should copy on correspondence.
Usually, yes. Any works that affect the character or fabric of a listed building require listed building consent from your local planning authority. We prepare clear documentation for your conservation officer showing cable routes, fixing methods and any intrusive works, and we adjust the design to minimise what needs consenting in the first place.
Most of the time, yes. We use existing service voids, lift original floorboards with care and return them like-for-like, run cable through base-coat skirting and architrave lines, and where unavoidable use the shallowest surface-fix in conduit painted to match. Chase-cutting in original lime plaster is a last resort, only with consent.
Heritage projects start at around £15,000. Typical whole-house work on a Grade II farmhouse or Bath townhouse sits between £25,000 and £60,000 depending on size, finish level and phasing around other trades. We quote fixed prices after a paid survey, not ballpark day rates.
Yes — we prefer it. We attend design-stage meetings, mark up cable routes and fitting positions on your drawings, and coordinate with the main contractor's programme. Drawings, RAMS and O&M manuals are provided in the format your architect or PM expects.
Bath, Wells, Frome, Bruton, Castle Cary, Shepton Mallet, Glastonbury, Wincanton, Sherborne and the surrounding villages of Mid Somerset and North Dorset. We occasionally travel further for longer projects — ask. See our Bath and Wells area pages for local detail.
Yes — Bath is one of our core heritage markets. We routinely work on Grade II Georgian townhouses across the Royal Crescent, Lansdown, Bathwick and Widcombe areas. Cable runs follow original service penetrations and lifted floorboards, never chased into ashlar or original lime plaster. Switch plates and sockets specified in unlacquered brass or polished nickel to suit period interiors. All works documented for B&NES conservation officers.
Yes. Wells properties — including the cathedral precinct, Vicar's Close (oldest residential street in Europe) and the conservation area — need particular care. We liaise directly with Mendip / Somerset Council conservation officers, prepare reversibility statements where required, and run cable invisibly through existing voids. Brass and bronze accessories colour-matched to the building. No surface conduit on principal elevations. BS 7671 18th edition compliant throughout.
Absolutely. If your interior designer has a fitting schedule, send it over — we'll price the install. Click Deco and Deco Plus are our default range for screwless metallic finishes (chrome, brass, antique brass, brushed steel) on most jobs. If you'd like us to specify period-specific brass / bronze finishes, we have working relationships with Forbes & Lomax, Dowsing & Reynolds, Corston, Buster + Punch, Hamilton, Davey Lighting and others, and can source through trade accounts.
Yes — this is our default approach for any rewire on suspended timber floors. Boards are lifted with a heritage chisel and marked sequentially so they go back exactly where they came from. Square nails, cut nails or original brass screws are kept and re-used. Cable runs are carried in joist drillings to BS 7671 zone rules with grommets fitted to prevent abrasion. Where boards are tongue-and-groove or feature original limewash, we agree the lift sequence with the conservation officer first and document it in our RAMS.
We attend a pre-application meeting at the property with the conservation officer, the architect (where appointed) and the client. We bring drawings showing proposed cable routes, fixing details, and a schedule of accessories with finishes. After the visit we issue a method statement and a reversibility note for the LBC application. Once consent is granted we work to the consented drawings and notify any in-flight changes back through the architect. Final certificates and as-built marked-up drawings are issued to the LPA on completion if requested.
For period interiors we routinely specify Forbes & Lomax Invisible Light Switch, Dowsing & Reynolds and Corston unlacquered brass plates, Buster + Punch solid brass and smoked bronze, Hamilton Hartland antique brass, and Davey Lighting weathered brass for surface conduit work. Unlacquered finishes are preferred so the brass patinas naturally with the building. We can colour-match plates to existing ironmongery and supply samples ahead of specification sign-off.
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Every heritage project starts with a thirty-minute call. No obligation, no sales pitch — just a direct conversation about whether we're a fit for the work.
Dan Stevens · Director 07889 334849 Dan Street · 07983 106928