The Bull's Head, Anglesey
The new brasserie at the Bull's Head
Client
The Bull’s Head, Beaumaris, Anglesey, North Wales.
Project
Restaurant extension and interior design
Value
£0.25m/€0.34m
Requirement:
The Bull's Head was a popular, contemporary restaurant, with more potential customers than they could accommodate. So we were asked to sympathetically extend the listed building, create a new brasserie dining area and to design an interior befitting of one of the area's oldest inns, and one of very high quality and repute.
Our solution:
- In the eaves of the Bull's Head is a much lauded restaurant - the brasserie would work to the same exceptional standards, but serving more informal meals. This was a new venture for the inn and it needed to be visible, desirable and welcoming.
- We gently added on to the building, converting and extending what had been the stables, and used as storage space.
- The look is contemporary, but makes a feature of the building's history - we've not smoothed over the timeworn lines of this 15th century building, we've used them.
- We used glass to create a roof to the new extension, allowing natural light to flood in to the dining area.
- Double doors and windows mean that in the summer almost the whole extension can peal back to let the air in, and to open up the great views.
- The floor is underheated and uses beautiful local slate. The extension itself uses local stone.