Cheshire interiors – Lymm Water Tower
The 19th century Lymm Water Tower was sold by North West Water in 1996 and has been ‘re-imagined’ into a glorious family home, writes Kate Houghton.
The new rules of the property game
Figures published this week show that almost one in three house sales fell through between April and June against a backdrop of reports on property-price discounts. So how do sellers and buyers navigate their way through this post-EU referendum market?
The stunning home that comes WITH £50,000 a year: Homeowner will get the cash from phone firms if they buy £2.5million 19th century tower with amazing futuristic interior
Lymm Water Tower was a working water system up until the 1970s but has since been transformed, and now has a modern house wrapped around the base of the 130-year-old water tower.
Converted water tower, a ‘Grand Designs’ favourite, for sale for the first time at £2.5m
Frustrated house-hunters have little to choose from in the run up to next week’s European Referendum. Many prospective vendors are awaiting a result before putting up the estate agent boards. But there is one gem which has gone on sale this weekend.
Kevin McCloud’s top 100 Grand Designs:futuristic, James Bond-style lair in a historic 90ft water tower for sale for £2.5m
The winner of 11 awards and on the market for the first time since completion, this stunning conversion is a perfect hideaway
Tower houses
Elevation offers many special – and often sublime – advantages. Living up high provides a feeling of openness and light, as well as a greater sense of space and freedom.
The best of Grand Designs
Kevin McCloud has just published his latest book; The Best of Grand Designs in which he has selected his favourite 75 homes in the UK
Lymm Water Tower Six Years On
The Sunday Times Home supplement featured as its cover page Lymm Water Tower to introduce an article about Grand Designs presenter Kevin McCloud.
A Towering Success
Russell and Jannette Harris converted and extended a Grade-II listed Victorian water tower into a stunning contemporary property. Turn to Page 25.
From Water tower to Minimalist Home
A Victorian water tower has been converted and extended into a stunning, minimalist award winning home.
I own Britain’s Best Home: There’s no place like (my) home
He’s travelled far and wide in search of the country’s finest homes, but would Russell Harris swap his own water tower conversion for any of them? Jonny Beardsall checks his socks and puts the question.
Bare-faced chic
He wanted a state-of-the-art minimalist shrine; she didn’t want to part with her antiques. Hannah Booth follows one couple’s journey into ‘statement’ style living
The magnificent seven
FROM a multi-million-pound scheme to redevelop a redundant area of the city to a converted water tower, the very best new homes built across the region were celebrated at the Manchester Evening News Residential Property Awards.
Towering ambition
After eight years of toil and £425,000 over budget, the owners of a Victorian water tower have a home that takes their breath away, says Victoria O’Brien
Tower of Power
Smart homes are cropping up everywhere these days… IAN GALE casts his eye over an unusual home install and its Linn-powered multi-room audio set-up…
An essay in calm modernism – with an old water tower at its core
he Harris family purchased the grade II-listed Lymm Water Tower six years ago, with the aim of making a contribution to local heritage by rescuing a derelict building, while creating a design-led, minimalist family home of the future
Me And My Home: The tower lights the way
Russell and Jannette Harris ditched the chintz for an uncompromisingly minimalist lifestyle
Water tower wonder is one of UK’s best
IT HAS taken seven years, a staggering amount of money, and an incalculable emotional cost but the conversion of Lymm Water Tower from crumbling pile of stone to stunning house is complete.
Tall order for tower couple
TIME is running out for a couple transforming a Grade II water tower at Lymm into a dramatic, modern family home.
Going up in the world
Converted Victorian water towers are the next big thing for those seeking unusual homes, find Sarah Lonsdale
‘Jannette’s still speaking to me. She’s getting excited…’
It’s been a long time – and it’s going to get longer. Sharon Martin reports on Russell Harris’s ongoing struggle to turn a defunct Cheshire water tower into home.
Up and down is the long and short of it
As Russell Harris’s plan to convert Lymm Tower, in Cheshire, into a family home nears completion, he tells Sharon Martin of the fraught, final stages
Tower hits the home stretch
As Russell Harris prepares to finish his self-build project, he talks to Malcolm Moore about his future plans.
A dream coming true – all over by Christmas?
The Harrises are converting and extending a Grade-II listed, 1870 water tower in Lymm, Cheshire, into a modern, family home. The build is scheduled to finish next summer.
Towering Ambition
ONE couple’s six-year fight to make renovation dreams come true in a fairy-tale tower.
Coming along nicely – the homes of their dreams
There’s a long, hard road to travel if you want to create the perfect place of your own. Malcolm Moore provides a progress report on three very different self-builders wrestling with planners, workmen and escalating bills
Self-building: the future’s all planned out
Once the preserve of architectural cranks, millionaires and zealots, taking the DIY route to home ownership is on the increase in Britain. Malcolm Moore speaks to the self-builders-in-waiting before the work begins
RIBA Awards for Architecture 2005
Royal Institute Chartered Surveyors Awards 2006
Grand Designs Awards 2006
Daily Telegraph Homebuilding & Renovating Awards 2005
National Built in Quality Awards 2005
British Lighting Design Awards 2005
Manchester Evening News Residential Property Awards 2005
Andy Swan Award 2005