In his latest project, Salvage Hunter Drew Pritchard puts his “years of graft, knowledge and vision” on the ultimate test. The TV star has started a “Mammoth trip” to renovate a Georgian town house.
After completing his antique business in Conwy in May 2022, he later announced that he bought a five -story property in the historic city in Somerset Bath. While it admitted that it was the “most exciting” project he ever worked on, it was not without challenges – according to the Quest TV, the property, the “urgent and costly repairs” before he could think about it To replace the roof and 20 windows.
Drew had said that it was the most financially risky project he has ever committed. Despite the prestige location at the St. James' Square, the big old property had seen better days after they had been converted into five apartments in the early 1970s.
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The terrace house from the 1790s was full of “body repairs,” he said, desperately noticed how “every centimeter was painted in white shine”. It took a complete overhaul – he described it as the “worst house in the best location”. Nevertheless, it was love at first sight – Drew bought it after making an open offer in the summer of 2022 and making an offer.
With the help of the Bath architect Rhys Brookes, he is determined to restore the property in his earlier fame. No detail is spared in search of the accuracy of the time.
Among those he leaned for help was Charles Brooking, an architectural historian and collector, whose artifacts formed the basis for the Brooking Museum in Whitchurch, Hampshire. In 2005, Drew gave Brooking a large cross -section of house men from houses in North Wales. With his own ownership of the restoration and the need for door furniture from the 1790s, he turned to the museum to preserve leadership.
He visited a film team in tow. In the Cranleigh Magazine, Mr. Brooking wrote: “Fortunately, we have some important examples of modest to larger varieties. After taking pictures of the corresponding door handles and locks of the species that were used in the “polite” and secondary areas of Drew's house both in the 1790s, he hopes to track down similar examples. ” Now join the North Wales Live WhatsApp community
The St. James' Square was built on orchards and gardens organized by the residents of the nearby Royal Crescent. Most of the properties were completed by 1794, all arranged around a 360 feet of 250 feet grass area, which until 2002 grazed from a flock of sheep for a month.
Perhaps the most famous property is number 35, which is once at home at William Savage Landor, a close friend of Robert and Elizabeth Browning. Another friend was Charles Dickens, who stayed several times: supposedly in 1840, when Dickens had the first Little Nell there and fried the plot for the old curiosity shop.
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Drew's earlier forays in the restorations restoration in the period included a methodist chapel in the landscape of Conwy, which he bought in June 1995. After his divorce, after his divorce, he moved from the years from the walls of Conwy Town after his divorce. Although it was referred to by a friend as a “Chateau Despair”, Drew said that he loved the place after giving him a complete renovation.
But the Bath project is on a different level. To store it, Drew transferred some of his collective substances from Conwy – but he was combed in Great Britain for time storage and equipment after he was committed to only using recycled, recycled and antique materials. With his eye for details and flair for design, only a few would bet against him to achieve his goal “to return the soul of this historical building”.
Settlement hunter: Georgian House Restoration begins on Wednesday, February 5, at 10 p.m. in the Quest TV. The series runs to five episodes. Register for the North Wales Live newsletter, which was sent to your inbox twice a day
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