Poynton Bradbury Architects pick up two awards at the Cornish Building Group Awards 2023

A fantastic result for our conservation team at the Cornish Building Group Awards 2023! 

We picked up two awards, a World Heritage Site Award for the Wheal Martyn Clayworks project and a commendation for the restoration of Boskelly House in Carbis Bay. 

A huge well done to Paul Perry for leading these projects from our side. 

Also our very own Jacob Down scooped Best Building award for Trevolt, the conversion of a disused substation for his good friends Morveth and Abi (as seen on George Clarke's Remarkable Renovations!).

Boskelly

Boskelly was acquired in 1921 from Squire Tyringham of Trevethoe by Greville Ewing Matheson. He engaged Edmund Fuller to design a library, to accommodate 10,000 books, together with a flat for Matheson’s brother-in-law, Charles John Pugh. This extended Boskelly southwards and was subsequently separated in 1989 to form a dwelling known as Boskerris Vean. The Grade II Listed residential properties have now been recombined into a single dwelling and ownership.

Poynton Bradbury Architects were commissioned for the major restoration of Boskelly and the substantial reconstruction of the existing ‘mundic’ affected structures and low grade modern extensions. The replacement buildings faithfully reproduce key elements of the original historical design.

Wheal Martyn Clay Works Museum

The Wheal Martyn Clay Works Museum is based within two Victorian china clay works, now a Scheduled Ancient Monument, and tells the story of how china clay mining has shaped the landscape, lives of people and economy of mid-Cornwall for over 250 years. The completion of this major four year project marks the end of the first phase of an ambitious masterplan aimed at making Wheal Martyn a hub for the local community and a place for everyone to be inspired, recharge, and immerse themselves in the outstanding mining heritage of the area.