Salthouse Harbour Hotel,

In order to convert the building for hotel bedrooms we needed to raise the ceiling heights of the upper floors without destroying the character of the building. In order to achieve this, the upper two floors were carefully dismantled and then rebuilt to match the existing building but with higher ceilings. More rooms were needed than could be accommodated in the original structure but the foundations could not support any additional floors if masonry construction was used and so a lighter steel ‘pavilion’ structure was erected on top of the newly-rebuilt masonry building. The result is a building with a very distinct character and a ‘face’ that is immediately recognisable along the waterfront.