Dee Hills Park

On top of an escarpment, occupying an elevated position with spectacular views to the southeast overlooking water meadows and a pronounced bend in the River Dee known locally as the Earl’s Eye is Dee Hills Park, the site of a prestigious private residential development of eighteen spacious apartments.

To the rear of the site framing the entrance and the views of existing buildings beyond is a separate three storey block of three apartments.

This site, commanding one of the most significant views of Chester when seen from the meadows, is within the Boughton Conservation Area and is flanked on either side by contrasting Grade II Listed Buildings. To the south-west lies the flamboyant, pinnacled, red brick and tiled Uffington House, designed by E A Ould and to the north-west, the much cooler, classical Mere House, the original dwelling in Dee Hills Park, designed by Thomas Harrison. Further villas extend along the escarpment to the north-west.

The design solution is mindful of this context and whilst remaining strictly modernist in approach in particular draws on the simplicity of the white rendered envelope of Mere House and on the tradition of south facing balconies and terraces evident on the established villas, which extend outwards and downwards to the River Dee.