Customs House – Heritage Roofing & External Refurbishment

This £250,000 project required a full temporary roof and extensive scaffold to enable the complete external refurbishment of the exterior of this heritage building and various outbuildings.

As a Grade II listed building, the works were carried out in accordance with established conservation principles and techniques sensitive to the historic nature of this building. This included the use of lime mortars to re-point the elevations and sensitive repair and re-decoration of joinery and metal work. The roofs were replaced with lead and Welsh slates.

The building was in full occupation and was used as an HMRC operations centre with a wharf from where launches of the UK Border Agency are sent to make interceptions of vessels. Therefore, consideration had to be given to security and the needs of the building users throughout the project.