Amounderness House

Preston, Lancashire

Client: Preston City Council
Value: £9 Million

The £9m+ regeneration of the Grade II-listed Amounderness House is a major part of Preston’s £200m wider Harris Quarter regeneration. Plans for the Grade II-listed building have been approved, paving the way for 26 bespoke offices and studios, plus meeting and event space.

Originally built in 1857, the former police station and court is being sensitively refurbished with sustainability, design heritage, and public use in mind, including an improved rear courtyard and carefully considered façade updates. Preston’s historic magistrates’ court is being reimagined as a high-quality flexible workspace.

The transformation will deliver high-quality flexible offices and studios, several meeting and event spaces, sympathetic rear elevation redesign with sustainable, cost-effective materials, public realm improvements in the building’s courtyard and a full restoration that will preserve the building’s 19th-century heritage creating a modern hub for innovative businesses in the city centre.