Red Olive Inns
Builders & Designers

Jeffrey Keays Architect who also designed our barn conversion, designed all the alterations to Beech House ensuring the house was 'given a face lift' on the outside, bringing back the traditional features to the house,  inside creating space for the three bedrooms and three suites whilst maintaining the feel of being a home.

Jeffrey Keays - 01636 700777

Brown & Jones Builders have spent seven months converting this traditional four bedroomed house into six beautiful rooms and suites. Craig Burgess leads and Richard (Jones) and Matt (Brown) oversee a team of local craftsmen. They have gutted the house and rebuilt it enhancing the tradional features with bespoke doors, windows anf fittings. They also work with local plumbers, electricians and decoraters so Richard is able to advise and find the right person for the job when they are needed.

Richard Jones & Matt Brown - 01780 729027

Steve Green Plumbing has designed and installed a system to provide heating to ensure comfort in all the rooms throughout the year, a continual flow of hot water to all six bathrooms as well as fitting the six luxurious bathroom suites

Steve Green - 07798644408 (like all plumbers Steve never answers his phone unless you owe him money, if you need a good plumber then Richard at Brown & Jones can get hold of Steve)

Phil Hassell Electrician has rewired the house and added an alarm system and cabling for telephone and internet throughout the house. 

Phil Hassell - 07850 957880

Niel Gilson Painter & Decorator and his team spent 10 weeks stripping and repainting everything at Beech House. Their attention to detail adds to the feeling of quality created at Beech House. 

Niel Gilson - 01572 823492 or 07885 790141

IDMP Illustrations & Design Mark Powell prepared the original illustrations which helped us to envisage what wanted to create at Beech House, we also used his pictures to create a brochure and market Beech House before it was finished.

Mark Powell - 07941 723646 

Andrew Hewson has helped us with the interior design taking our ideas and enhancing them with his own to create rooms that are luxurious, comfortable and homely. He is brilliant with colours and is able to combine item from antique shops and fairs, skips, car boots, Asda and Ikea to create the right feel in the room.

Andrew Hewson - 01476 577663

Swans of Oakham assisted Andrew with the design of all the rooms and provided all the beds which all have made to measure hand sprung mattress's. They also sourced all the furniture and fabrics some from there shop on Mill Street in Oakham and some from Antiques Fairs.

Peter Jones, Linda Jones & Tom Scott - 01572 724364

 

RICS Awards

Beech House and The Olive Branch was a finalist in the conservation category of the 2007 East Midlands Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors Awards...

Swans of Oakham

Swans is a family firm, with a shop in nearby Oakham, they provided all the furnishings for Beech House. They specialise in the more unusual decorative pieces and have become one of largest French antique bed suppliers in the UK. They have added soft furnishing, antique linen and tapestries to there stock along with decorative accessories, ceramics, lamps and mirrors both old and new.