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Kresen Kernow Archive Centre

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Kresen Kernow Archive Centre Project Details Project: Kresen Kernow Archive Centre Products installed: Specialist Design, Manufacture and Installation of Casement Windows Completed: January 2019 Wessex Restoration recently completed a commercial contract to design, manufacture and install specialist casement windows into a grade II listed building in Redruth, to be used as the Cornwall council archive centre. Kresen Kernow stands on part of the site of the former Redruth Brewery. The public research areas, exhibition spaces and learning rooms all sit within the former brewhouse. Redruth Brewery stood on the site for over 200 years, from around 1792 until it closed in 2004. The brewery was in its heyday in the … Continue reading →

Celebrating our 25th year anniversary

Wessex Restoration team repairing sash windows

Next year, Wessex Restoration celebrate 25 years of trading. Here’s some more information about the history of the company so far, and why we’ve been able to become one of the region’s leading heritage restoration and renovation companies. The beginning: 1996 Wessex Restoration was established in January 1st 1996, as a franchise of Ventrolla Ltd, which had patented a unique draught proofing system for sliding sash windows. Originally we covered the Bristol, Bath and Gloucester postcodes, from offices in Clevedon. 2000 to 2007 A couple of years later, Wessex Restoration moved to Nailsea, where a joinery shop was set up in response to an increase in demand for bespoke replacement … Continue reading →