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.
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 control via Lutron, Rako or Loxone — invisible keypads, period-appropriate plates.
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.
Dowsing & Reynolds, Corston, Forbes & Lomax, Buster + Punch, Hamilton. Solid brass, antique bronze, polished nickel, Bakelite repro. Switches and sockets that match the building — not the builder's catalogue. Happy to source and specify alongside your interior designer.
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. Lutron RA2 Select scene control. Forbes & Lomax unlacquered brass plates throughout. Kitchen pendants, integrated joinery lighting, discreet underfloor-heating controls.
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 and discreet smart-home integration. 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.
Absolutely. If your interior designer has a fitting schedule, send it over — we'll price the install. If you'd like us to specify, we have working relationships with Forbes & Lomax, Dowsing & Reynolds, Corston, Buster + Punch, Hamilton, Davey Lighting and others, and can source through trade accounts.
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