Mowat & Company has been granted planning permission to retrofit the headquarters of a family-run timber merchant in the East Midlands

Sykes Timber’s HQ is currently a ‘tired old building’, according to the practice, on the company’s 4ha site in Atherstone, a market town in North Warwickshire, east of Birmingham

The 1960s brick building features a flat roof, plain brick elevations with single glazing, and sits in front of a series of ‘huge’ warehouses containing the company’s 60 species of timber arranged by species, grade and size.

Mowat & Company’s design will replace the building’s leaking flat roof with a rain-collecting butterfly timber roof engineered by Structure Workshop.