An already-huge Newcastle-under-Lyme property under new ownership, taken even further. Side extension. Rear extension. Six bedrooms. Cinema room. Open-plan kitchen-diner with formal dining alongside. The most ambitious residential build HYPE has documented end-to-end.
Project · Snapshot
Not your standard HYPE renovation. A premium residential build for the new owners of what was once a footballer's family home, already a substantial property on a generous plot, now extended both rear and side, internally re-planned to deliver six bedrooms, an open-plan kitchen-diner, a separate formal dining room, a cinema room, and an en-suite master bedroom with dressing room. Structural Engineer-calculated steels. Five-part build film on HypeTV. The case study tracks the project from 25% through to 90%, final completion photography held back at the owners' request.
Project · The Story
The same three questions we ask every project: what they bought, what we did, what changed. Honest. Specific. No marketing fluff.
A premium Newcastle-under-Lyme property under new ownership. The building was already huge; the plot was already generous. The new owners hadn't come to HYPE to make it 'usable': they'd come to take a benchmark property and push it further. The brief was unapologetically ambitious.
A side extension and a rear extension. Both single-storey. Both significant in size. The structural challenge was the biggest single feature of the build: the existing rear of the property had to come off in a way that the new extension could safely carry the load above. That meant working with a Structural Engineer from the brief stage, sizing steels capable of supporting the new structure, and physically getting those steels into place, beams that big don't go in on a forklift.
Internally, full remodel. A huge open-plan kitchen-diner. A separate formal dining room (for the family who can both host informally AND host properly). A dedicated cinema room. Six bedrooms, including a master suite with en-suite and dressing room. Staircase rebuilt in the entrance hall as a piece of joinery in its own right.
Externally: new flat roofs, new windows, drainage replaced, hardcore laid for the new ground surfaces.
What was already a serious property became, in the owners' words, a home fit for a king. The build is the most ambitious residential project HYPE has documented from end to end: the case study below tracks the work from the 25% mark all the way to 90% completion. The final dressed-state photography is held back at the owners' request; you can see how the project ended via the build film on HypeTV.
House Extensions & Refurbishment · Newcastle-under-Lyme
Not your standard HYPE renovation. A premium residential build for the new owners of what was once a footballer's family home, already a substantial property on a generous plot, now extended both rear and side, internally re-planned to deliver six bedrooms, an open-plan kitchen-diner, a separate formal dining room, a cinema room, and an en-suite master bedroom with dressing room. Structural Engineer-calculated steels. Five-part build film on HypeTV. The case study tracks the project from 25% through to 90%, final completion photography held back at the owners' request.
It's not very often we can say we're working on the house of an ex footballer. (The property is now under new ownership but still.) Already a beautiful property in a sought-after part of Newcastle-under-Lyme. The ground it sits on isn't modest either. But it's about to grow in stature.
The masterplan, agreed at the front of the build: huge open-plan kitchen-diner, separate formal dining room, cinema room, six bedrooms including en-suite master with dressing room. As far removed from our standard renovations as we're likely to get.
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Externally, the footings for both extensions are being dug. Internally, the structural alterations that will form the newly planned rooms have started.
The critical engineering decision at this stage: how does the existing rear of the property come off, and how does the new extension carry the load above? For that we needed a Structural Engineer. The sheer weight and size of the beams needed to support the new structure presents a problem in itself: and that's before you've worked out how to safely manoeuvre them into place.
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The side and rear extensions are beginning to take shape nicely. Internally, the remodelling has begun to create some amazing new open spaces.
This is the moment a project of this scale starts to feel inevitable: the volumes the owners agreed on paper begin to exist as actual rooms. The kitchen-diner footprint becomes visible. The cinema room location is clear. The master suite extent is laid out.
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The size of the steels needed for this dual extension project are immense. As we reach the three-quarter point it's beginning to gain the WOW-factor.
This is the stage where a build of this scale separates from a domestic extension. The structural steels are now in place. The new open volumes are physically possible. The transformation is now genuinely visible from inside the house: and from outside, the two extensions have taken on their final massing.
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Huge progress to the inside and outside is evident since the last photos were taken. The new flat roofs are in place. Take a look at the views from that upstairs bedroom window, awesome.
Downstairs, the cinema room is taking shape nicely. The huge open-plan space at the rear of the property is ready for plasterboards. The staircase in the entrance hall is a work of art, joinery in its own right. The kitchen is very nearly fully installed.
As for the outside: a mass of hardcore is being laid in preparation for the finished surface. The windows are installed. The drainage is in place. From here, it's the final fix, the dressings, the snag list, the bits the owners would rather we didn't photograph for the public site.
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Final-fix, dressings, snag list, handover. The owners have asked us to keep the dressed-state photography off the public site: perfectly reasonable for a private home of this scale. We always respect that.
The single image below is what the owners have approved for publication. The full five-part build film is on HypeTV if you want to see how the project ran.
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On camera · Watch the build
Every HYPE build is documented on camera. The videos from this project sit at the top. Below them: three of John’s most-watched videos from HypeTV.
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