Spence & Dower
Postal Address:
Spence & Dower
Column Yard
Cambo
Morpeth
Northumberland
NE61 4AY
Tel: 01670 774 448
Fax: 01670 774 446
Email: architects(at)spenceanddower.co.uk
Web Site: www.spenceanddower.co.uk
Company Information
Year established: 1946
Size of projects by contract value: 0 to £1.99M
In addition to larger projects, Spence & Dower will undertake: Small projects less than £100,000; one-off houses.
We have been established for nearly 60 years, completing a wide variety of projects in the North of England and have received several awards for our work. We have built on our experience to develop special skills in Primary Health Care accommodation, Community Architecture and Historic Building Conservation, while always remaining kean to help householders build new, extend or alter the space they live in. We have established excellent working relations with our clients (many over a long period of time), with local authority planning departments and public bodies like English Heritage, other specialist consultants and, most vitally, with building contractors. Our role is to encourage all those participating in the building process to see their own value and to enjoy working together to a common end.
Total staff (full-time): 4
Total staff (part-time): 2
Directors and Partners
- R C P Dower MA, BArch, DipLD, RIBA
- K R Gough BA, BArch, RIBA
Range of Services
- Access Audits
- Archaeology
- Architects' Service & Fee Advice
- Art & Architecture
- Brief Writing
- Building Failures
- Building Maintenance
- Building Technology
- Church Quinquennial Inspections
- Cladding & Facade Design
- Community Development
- Community Planning & Participation
- Conservation & Restoration
- Construction Techniques
- Contract Administration
- Cost Estimating
- Design for Disabled People
- Design Services only (Stage C)
- Drawing Service
- Feasibility Studies
- FFE (Furniture
- Fixtures & Equipment)
- Full Architectural Service
- Graphic Design & Illustration
- Interior Design
- Landscape Design
- Listed Building Advice
- Lottery/Grant Bid Advice
- Materials Advice
- Planning Applications
- Production Information
- Reclamation
- Refurbishment
- Remedial Work
- Research
- Rural Planning & Design
- Small projects less than £100000
- Surveying
- Sustainable Design
Sectors Worked
- Agriculture-Farm Buildings
- Civic Building-Monuments, Community Participation
- Conservation-1920's 1930's Buildings, Barns, Mills & Oast Houses, General, Georgian Buildings, Medieval Buildings, Victorian Buildings
- Culture & Entertainment-Art Galleries, Community Centres, Entertainment Complexes, General, Libraries, Museums, Visitors' Centres
- Education-Primary, Training Centres
- Food and Beverage-Restaurants
- Government-General
- Houses and Housing-Conversion & Extensions, General
- Landscaping-Gardens, General, Highways, Parks, Managed Workspace
- Offices-General
- Religious Buildings-Christian
- Retail-One-off Shops
- Sport-General
- Transportation-General
- Urban Planning / Design-Urban Planning & Design
Geographical
Countries Worked
- UK
