Builders in Cheltenham
From Regency townhouses in Montpellier to family homes in Charlton Kings and Up Hatherley, we renovate, extend and refit Cheltenham houses with one family-run team, with interiors by Decoris and energy upgrades by Precision Green Energy.
2,600
listed buildings in the borough
7
conservation areas, led by the Central area
1
team from design to the final finish
Building in a Regency town
Stucco fronts, tall sash windows, cornicing and original joinery are a large part of what makes a Cheltenham home special. Our job is to keep them while making the house work for modern life: a kitchen that opens onto the garden, bathrooms that suit the family, and heating and electrics built to last. Where a house is listed or in a conservation area, we plan the design and the approvals together from day one.
Our services in Cheltenham
Rear, side and wraparound extensions, from a garden-level kitchen on a Regency townhouse to a two-storey addition in Charlton Kings. We design to the council’s extension guidance from the start, so neighbours’ light and the look of the street are dealt with before you apply.
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Full refurbishments of listed and period homes, with new heating, wiring and plumbing routed around the original features, plus top-to-bottom updates of later family houses.
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Individually designed houses on infill and garden plots, and replacement homes where an older house has had its day. We can work as your new build contractor on an architect’s design, or design the house with you. Edge-of-town plots are often in the green belt or the Cotswolds National Landscape, so we look at planning first.
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Designed and fitted by Decoris, our sister company: kitchens that open onto the garden, en-suites in reworked bedrooms and bathrooms that suit a period house.
Kitchens by Decoris →
From first sketches to planning permission and building regulations, including listed building consent and Battledown trustee approval where they apply.
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Heat pumps, solar panels and battery storage from Precision Green Energy, with care over what’s acceptable on a listed building or in a conservation area.
Precision Green Energy →Where we work
Regency terraces and villas, many of them listed and inside the Central Conservation Area. Work here starts with a careful survey of what’s original and, usually, listed building consent.
Grand villas and terraces around Pittville Park, also within the Central Conservation Area. Well suited to full refurbishments and to reworking lower floors into kitchen and family space.
Victorian and Edwardian villas with longer gardens, where a rear or side extension can add space without crowding the house.
Family homes below the Cotswold escarpment. On the Battledown estate, the estate trustees must approve building work as well as the council.
One of the borough’s seven conservation areas, with older cottages and village houses where scale and materials matter.
Later twentieth-century family homes, where a kitchen extension, an open-plan rework or a full refurbishment makes the biggest difference.
Our Cheltenham project
A large single-storey rear extension and a full refurbishment of a Cheltenham family home. The extension created one open-plan kitchen, dining and living space under a lantern rooflight, with bi-fold and sliding doors onto the garden.
Planning in Cheltenham
Cheltenham Borough Council handles planning across the town, including Charlton Kings, Leckhampton, Prestbury, Up Hatherley and Swindon Village. We manage the applications for you as part of our design service.
Our design service →A Cheltenham client
“Precision came in to do a full rip-out and refurbishment of my house… removing everything downstairs and installing new UF heating, a new WC, a new kitchen, all electrics and plumbing works, and an unusual and demanding amount of custom joinery. The teams were a pleasure to work with.”
Justin Penketh
Full refurbishment · Cheltenham · Google review
Read all our Google reviews →FAQs
Yes. We plan the design and the listed building consent together and survey what’s original before anything is removed, so period details can be kept or matched. The council usually aims to decide consent applications within eight weeks, so we build that into the programme.
Not always. Many single-storey rear extensions are permitted development. In a conservation area the rules are tighter, and side or two-storey extensions need planning permission. Any change to a listed house needs listed building consent. We check your house at the first visit and handle whatever applications it needs.
Building work on the estate needs the trustees’ approval as well as planning permission. We prepare the drawings for both, so the two approvals run side by side.
Yes. Our Cheltenham refurbishments have included underfloor heating, rewiring and new plumbing. We route new services to protect floors, cornicing and joinery, and Precision Green Energy can advise on heat pumps and solar where the house allows.
All of it, including Montpellier, Lansdown, Pittville, The Park, Leckhampton, Charlton Kings, Prestbury, Up Hatherley, Warden Hill, Benhall and Swindon Village, plus nearby villages such as Bishop’s Cleeve, Shurdington and Winchcombe.
Yes. We build one-off homes on plots across Cheltenham and Gloucestershire, from groundworks to the final fittings, either to our design or to your architect’s. See our new builds, or our Gloucester page for Montazah.
Tell us about the house and what you’d like to change. We reply to every enquiry within 24 hours.