Case Studies
- Former Regent Theatre, Dorset
- Mapperton House, Dorset
- Town Hall, Hungerford, Berkshire
- 18th Century House, Berkshire
- 19th Century Cottage, Hampshire
- 19th Century Lodge, Suffolk
- 18th Century House, Dorset
- Bromley Court Hotel, London
- 18th Century House, Dorset
- Jamaica Inn, Cornwall
- The Norfolk Arms, West Sussex
- 17th Century House, Kent
- Royal Victoria Arcade, Isle of Wight
- 18th Century Farmhouse, Dorset
- 18th/19th Century Workhouses, Kent
- 16th Century House, Essex
- 15th Century House, Surrey
- 15th Century House, Dorset
- Burma Railways Building, Myanmar
- 16th Century House, Kent
- Georgian Town House, London
- Old Town Hall, Hertfordshire
- Georgian House, Lincolnshire
- 17th Century House, Berkshire
- Georgian Farmhouse, West Sussex
- Chats Palace, London
- 15th Century House, Kent
- 18th Century Inn, Hertfordshire
- 15th Century House, Kent
Royal Victoria Arcade, Isle of Wight
The building is a Grade II listed shopping arcade in Ryde, Isle of Wight. The arcade, named for the future Queen Victoria, was built in 1835-6 to the designs of William Westmacott (1792/3-1880) and constitutes one of the earliest purpose-built arcades outside of London. The plan is cruciform, with two-storey shops lining the central concourses and a central rotunda with dome and oculus.
Ryde District Heritage centre occupies a large part of the basements of the arcade and contains a recently-discovered internal ice well, built as part of the original design. The ice well was a considerable undertaking and, dating from the mid-1830s, predates the commercial ice trade in England, which gathered pace from the 1850s, by some time and provides a valuable insight into not only the early trade, but also its early commercial uses.
We provided professional advice to the Heritage Centre, comprising a study of the national and local context of the ice trade, as well as interpretation of the use of the well and the adjacent areas and general advice on their conservation.
