Brentford Flood
The Big Blue - Putting The Project On The Map
‘The Big Blue’ transformed the site’s presence in the town centre. Bright blue paint, marking the high-water mark of Brentford’s historic flood, was applied to the lane and buildings leading from the High Street down to the waterside. It was very effective in attracting people down to sample the new café and bakery, and to view the marketing gallery.
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Brentford Bakery
Bakery, event space and marketing gallery
On the riverside, HAL designed the scheme’s new sales gallery housed in a converted industrial shed, including a new events space, bakery and café pulling people into the site and down to the river.
The bakery thrived and also sold bread wholesale to leading London restaurants, while the café and events space proved popular with locals and visitors to the adjacent Duke of London’s classic car garage and storage facilities. These are now being recreated in the multi-storey car park at the project’s eastern end.
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McIlroy Mews
Re-animating the High Street
HAL has designed the restoration and conversion of listed buildings to bring new life back to the western end of Brentford High Street on its southern side.
This frontage includes a pair of Grade II-listed townhouses adjacent to the Magpie and Crown pub. HAL has integrated a new build element to complete the terrace alongside the restoration and conversion of these older buildings.
New shops and a restaurant will front the High Street with 10 new apartments above. These are accessed via a first-floor walkway to the rear, creating McIllroy Mews.
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Bradbury Warehouses
Linking High Street to River Basin
Running down the sloping centre of the site are a pair of narrow Victorian warehouses. Keeping these and maintaining the lanes either side establishes a main north-south route linking High Street to the river at the heart of the masterplan.
The Bradbury Mews warehouses are the last surviving example of the structures that ran north south from Brentford High Street to the waterside.
The Victorian brick warehouses or ‘Long Buildings’ replaced simple wooden structures that housed the lightermen, fishermen and craftspeople that relied on the river for their livelihoods.
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St Lawrence's Church
Restoration of a Local Landmark
St Lawrence’s Church at the Brentford Project’s western end, deconsecrated and derelict since the 1960s, is Grade II-listed and currently sits on Historic England’s ‘at risk’ register.
Works are currently progressing to provide facilities to support possible future uses which might include a music venue, garden nursery or gymnasium.
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