Contract planning in Westcombe Park
Documented building context
Greenwich’s appraisal identifies three-storey paired gabled villas at 123–125 and 130–136 Coleraine Road, with verandahs and ornamental ironwork. It also records gabled dormers, decorative bargeboards and stucco bays in that group. Those named details should not be applied to every property along the road.
The appraisal distinguishes the two-storey group at 60–78 Coleraine Road, with paired doorways and terracotta dates of 1897 or 1898, from the taller villas nearby. A datestone is a useful historical marker, but it cannot date every extension, roof change or internal alteration in the building behind it.
Greenwich records Ulundi Road as a late-Victorian street developed between 1882 and 1900, containing paired, terraced and detached villas. Its material and detail list includes both single-storey and double-height bays, gables and varied roof finishes. This is a range of features, not a checklist guaranteed at every house.
The appraisal identifies Westcombe Park Road as the higher part of the study area and describes streets responding to the slope. It also records the varied development along roads such as Coleraine Road. That topographic context helps explain viewing arrangements, but does not establish movement or drainage behaviour at a property.
Westcombe Park tender and contract decisions
For a Coleraine Road tender, identify the instructed villa's height, frontage and actual decorative elements on the drawings. The taller gabled pairs and the lower dated group call for different quantities and access planning. Neither a nearby veranda nor a terracotta date establishes the extent of work to be priced at the employer's house. Schedule the current roof, bays and entrances from the project information.
Where the package includes a dormer, veranda or ornamental ironwork, distinguish the retained part from the proposed alteration and its connection to the main building. Identify any close examination required before the designer can complete the detail. Tenderers should state what they have allowed for access, temporary support or protection and making good, with unresolved items visible in the comparison.
For a site on a slope, show the confirmed delivery route and changes of level relevant to the operation. Ask contractors to explain their assumptions about moving materials and positioning access equipment within the available space. The appraisal's topographic description cannot establish the suitability of that space for a particular method, nor an entitlement to use an adjoining route.
What should the Westcombe Park tender and completion file make clear?
Complete the selected JCT documents using the agreed work references and allocation of design tasks. During delivery, connect each instruction to the relevant dormer, bay or elevation, and retain the supporting cost and programme assessment. At completion, organise the project records around those components so the employer can distinguish repairs to a late-Victorian feature from work to an addition of a different date.
Appointment
HCS cannot act as independent contract administrator where HCS is the contractor.
Local Sources Checked
- Greenwich: Westcombe Park Conservation Area Character Appraisal — Topography; Coleraine Road and Ulundi Road building groups; printed/PDF pages 8, 27–29, 44
Nearby contract administration
Accountability
Provider
Hampstead Chartered Surveyors & Building Consultancy — RICS Regulated Firm No. 923064
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