Ledston Hall

Ledston Hall is a former country house which incorporates a 12th century chapel. The building itself is Grade 1 listed and is set within in over 3,000 acres of Grade II* registered park and garden. Much of the building has been disused for a number of years, although the south wing included some residential space let to tenants.

The project comprises works to repair and conserve the historic building fabric, followed by a conservation phase to redevelop the property into a series of houses and apartments.  A number of the principal rooms will be retained for public access including the chapel and spaces to be used for functions / dining / education facilities.

TGA’s Building Performance team have worked with the Architect and our M&E engineers to develop a new energy strategy for the building incorporating a new, remote energy centre with gas fired CHP supported by boilers.  This arrangement provides thermal energy to the residential properties for hot water and space heating as well as offsetting a proportion of the building’s electrical power consumption, reducing annual CO₂ emissions in excess of the planning authority’s requirements and removing the need to distribute gas, boiler flues and associated ventilation in the historic building.

Each residential unit is served by a local electrical consumer unit fed from a common switchboard as well as a heat interface unit which delivers local hot water and heating services from thermal energy produced by the central plant.

TGA also provided Specialist Lighting input for this project.

Read more about this project on Historic England’s website here – https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/adapting-historic-buildings-energy-carbon-efficiency-advice-note-18/case-study-ledston-hall/