Poole Architecture
Houses that face the harbour.
Poole is defined by water — the harbour, the islands, the beaches at Sandbanks — and nearly every good plot here is judged by how the house meets it.
Our story.
Who are we?
The harbour shoreline carries everything from the medieval streets of Poole Old Town to the large plots and replacement dwellings of Sandbanks and Lilliput. Each has a different planning conversation: conservation area and listed buildings in the old town, scale and massing on the peninsula, flood risk and coastal change almost everywhere.
Our work in settings like these is about orientation and restraint: first-floor living turned to the water, terraces that step down towards a slipway, and materials that will weather honestly in salt air. Where a replacement dwelling is proposed, we make the case on design quality rather than on size alone.
With more than 450 projects behind us, we design new homes, extensions, luxury developments and complex renovations across Dorset, Hampshire and the wider South of England, always in close collaboration with you.
What we do.
From appraisal to completion.
We begin with a proper appraisal of the site — access, levels, trees, drainage, services and planning history — so you know early what the land can carry.
We handle the planning process, including conservation area and listed building consent where it applies, and prepare the drawings, statements and specialist input a sensitive site needs.
From there we take the design through building regulations and technical detailing, and stay close to the build so the finished house matches the drawings.
Selected Projects
Our experience in Poole.
One studio.
A single Hampshire studio working across the harbour with local engineers and builders, and with the specialist input coastal sites need for flood risk and ground conditions.
10+ years.
Over a decade of residential design, including waterside and replacement dwellings where scale, massing and long views have to be argued carefully at planning.
450+ projects.
More than 450 projects across the South of England, from coastal new builds with terraced gardens to modest extensions that simply open a house to the water it already faces.