Nigel Anderson

Nigel Anderson

BSc (Hons), DIPL ARCH, RIBA



Design Director

Nigel Anderson is well known for his classical designs for new country houses and commercial housing schemes. His work also includes masterplanning, as well as the restoration and refurbishment of historic houses, with projects across the country. Nigel has over 30 years’ experience and continues to work with private clients as well as commercial developers. He is an active member of the Traditional Architecture Group, helping to promote traditional architecture within the profession. His new house designs have been recognised with a number of architectural awards.

  • Chartered Architect
  • Member of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)
  • Treasurer of the Traditional Architecture Group (TAG), a linked society of the RIBA
  • Member of International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism (INTBAU), International College of Traditional Practitioners
  • Academician, Academy of Urbanism
  • Member of the Georgian Group
  • Member of the Victorian Society
  • Member of The Prince’s Foundation, Professional Network
  • RICS Residential Award 2015, Highly Commended, Bentley Priory
  • United Kingdom Property Awards 2014, Best Architecture Multiple Residence, London, UK, Bentley Priory
  • Brick Award 2013, Best Craftsmanship, new house in Hampshire
  • City of Winchester Trust 2013, Best Restoration, Old Hyde House – ADAM Architecture’s Winchester office
  • RICS Building Conservation Award 2013, shortlist, Old Hyde House – ADAM Architecture’s Winchester office
  • Salisbury Civic Society New Building Award Commendation 2010, new house in Wiltshire
  • Philippe Rotthier European Architecture Award 2008, Best Neighbourhoods Built In Europe During The Last Twenty- Five Years (Short runner Top 20), Bear Wharf, Reading
  • Homes & Property by The Evening Standard Award 2007, Best New Family Home up to 4 bedrooms, Best New Family Home 5 or more bedrooms & Best New Conversion, Douai Abbey, Berkshire
  • Commendation Waterways Renaissance Awards 2006, Bear Wharf, Reading
  • Daily Telegraph & What House? Magazine Awards 2004, Best Luxury House, new Arts & Crafts house, Derbyshire
  • Award for Good Architecture 1997, Social Housing Development, Meonstoke, Hampshire
  • Competition Winner, Masterplan for Trowse, near Norwich, 1996
  • Competition Winner, Rocester Town Centre, near Uttoxeter, 1995
  • Competition winner, Crown Estates, Pembroke Gate Lodge, Richmond Park, 1993
  • Making Better Places: The ADAM Architecture experience of housebuilding and masterplanning, Triglyph Books, 2020
  • The Country House Ideal: Recent work by ADAM Architecture, Merrell, 2015
  • The Art of Classical Details II – An Ideal Collaboration, Images Publishing, 2015
  • The Art of Classical Details, Theory, Design & Craftsmanship, The Images Publishing Group, 2013
  • New Palladians, Modernity & Sustainability for 21st Century Architecture, Artmedia Ltd, 2010
  • House in Dorset, Country Houses Today, John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2006

Project Portfolio



New country house
Surrey




This new family home has classical proportions and details coupled with a butterfly plan to maximise sunlight throughout the day and taking full advantage of the views of the lakeside…

Poundbury (Phase 2)
Dorchester, Dorset




Built on land owned by the Duchy of Cornwall, Poundbury lies on the outskirts of Dorchester and is built to a traditional high urban density. Involvement began at an early…

Bentley Priory
Middlesex




Bentley Priory is a Grade II * Listed house surrounded by registered parkland near Stanmore, on the north edge of London. The original eighteenth century house was remodelled by Sir…

Bear Wharf
Reading




Occupying a regenerated brownfield site alongside the River Kennet, Bear Wharf acts as a local landmark, providing visual variety and a broad mixture of high quality flats, as well as…

New Classical Villa
London




A new family home in Highgate replaces a 1920’s house that had been unsympathetically extended and altered. The design follows a recent, brutalist proposal for the site, which was unsympathetic…

New Queen Anne House
Dorset




A new family home constructed on the site of an unsightly and redundant modern farmyard that detracted from the surrounding landscape setting. The new building is a central two-storey house…

New Cottage Orné House
Hampshire




A new house in the Cottage Orné or Regency Gothic tradition, replaced a small, Victorian farmhouse on the site. The Cottage Orné style, seen in the local area, allows for…

Replacement Regency House Interior
Hampshire




The replacement ‘butterfly’ plan house, a type made popular by the Arts and Crafts movement in the late 19th Century/early 20th Century, is the most suitable plan in an exposed…

New Country House
Wiltshire




A house that replaces a twentieth century dwelling in grounds with panoramic views of the Berkshire Downs. The design is arranged on a butterfly plan, with four wings radiating from…

Trent Park
Enfield, London




A mixed-use development with a primary residential focus providing 262 dwellings plus community and leisure floor space, on the site of Middlesex University’s former Trent Park campus. The historic listed…

Stone & Flint House
Wiltshire




A replacement house set within mature grounds in Wiltshire. The site was previously occupied by an unsightly 1960s bungalow that was unsympathetic to the character of the village and surrounding…

Avalon
Douai Abbey, Berkshire




A project involving the adaptation of several Grade II Listed school buildings and the construction of new residential accommodation within the grounds of Douai Abbey in Berkshire. The existing buildings…

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Executive Board



Hugh Petter

George Saumarez Smith

Robbie Kerr

Darren Price

Robert Cox

Alison Duthie

Wayne Reakes
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