Garage conversions · Winchester
Garage conversions in Winchester
The quickest room you will ever add, as long as the floor, the walls and the damp are dealt with properly.
Garage conversions in Winchester
What the job usually looks like here.
Winchester has far fewer integral garages than the towns to the north — the period housing simply predates them — so most garage work here is on the post-war and modern stock towards Badger Farm, Weeke and Kings Worthy. Those convert well and sit outside the tightest conservation constraints. If your garage is detached and in a conservation area, changing what it looks like from the street is a planning question, even though converting the inside is not.
Winchester has far fewer integral garages than the towns north of it, so this work concentrates on the post-war and modern housing at Badger Farm, Weeke, Stanmore and Kings Worthy. Those are straightforward. Where it gets more involved is a detached garage or outbuilding in a conservation area: converting the inside is not a planning matter, but changing the doors, windows or roof — which any usable conversion requires — is.
What we cover
- Insulated floor build-up to match house level
- Blocking up the garage opening in matching brick
- Wall insulation and internal linings
- New window or doors to suit the room
- Heating, electrics and lighting
- Building Control application and sign-off
Covering
Winchester (SO22 and SO23) and Kings Worthy, Littleton, Twyford, Compton, Badger Farm, Weeke.
30 minutes down the A34 and M3.
More on building in Winchester
The housing stock, the council, the postcodes we cover and the villages around Winchester.
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Ring us or send a few lines about the job and we will come out and look at it. 30 minutes down the A34 and M3.
My garage is detached and in a conservation area. Can it be converted?
The internal conversion itself is Building Regulations rather than planning. But replacing the garage door with a window or wall changes the appearance, and in a conservation area that needs permission. It is usually granted for a sympathetic design; it is not something to start without.
Is the garage floor low enough to convert in a Winchester house?
On the post-war and modern stock at Badger Farm, Weeke and Kings Worthy, nearly always — the slab normally sits below the house floor, which gives us the depth for insulation and a membrane. We check the level on the first visit, because if the depth is not there you need to know before you plan the room.
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Garage conversions in Winchester.
Tell us what you are planning and we will come out, look at the property and put a written quote together with the costs set out.
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