Built on purpose.
Rooted in design.

Architectural design for homes and small commercial buildings across the UK — run stage by stage, priced up front, and explained as we go. Architectural designer-led, and deliberately small.

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PRACTICE: Urban Roots Architecture
WORK: Residential · Light commercial
SERVICE: RIBA stages 0–7
BASED: United Kingdom

A small practice, run properly

We design extensions, new build homes, barn conversions, garden studios and small commercial spaces. The practice is led by a qualified architectural designer, working with an assistant and a practice owner.

Because we are small, you deal with the person doing the work. Drawings arrive when we said they would, costs are discussed before they become decisions, and nothing goes to planning that you have not understood first.

We would rather be known for how a project feels to run than for a back catalogue. That is the part most people find hard, and it is the part we have organised carefully.

Read our process

One person, start to finish

You speak to the person drawing your project. Nothing is handed to a team you have never met.

Fixed stages, fixed fees

Every stage has a written scope, a date and a price agreed before it starts. You approve each one before we move on.

Planning risk named early

We tell you where the risk sits at the first survey, not after a refusal. Some ideas get ruled out in week one.

Selected projects

All projects

Landscape: rear elevation from the garden at dusk, lit from inside. Real house, real planting, no styling.Portrait crop for mobile: interior corner, oak and brick, low afternoon light. Calm, domestic.

Walthamstow, London — RIBA Stage 4

Terrace rear extension, Walthamstow

A wrap-around extension that steps down 300mm so the new kitchen reads as its own room rather than a corridor to the garden.

Landscape: exposed timber frame interior, dust in low light, roof structure visible. Quiet, atmospheric, unstyled.Portrait crop for mobile: a single oak post and its joint, low light, close.

Near Framlingham, Suffolk — RIBA Stage 3

Barn conversion, Suffolk

A Class Q conversion keeping the frame exposed, with new insulation and services threaded behind a lining rather than through the timber.

Landscape: construction in progress, timber frame and cladding going up. Natural light, no hi-vis, no posed trades.Portrait crop for mobile: cladding boards and fixings, close, raking light.

Bishopston, Bristol — On site

Garden studio, Bristol

A 14m² timber studio built within permitted development, detailed so the cladding weathers evenly and the roof stays invisible from the house.

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Built on purpose.Rooted in design.