Old to New…Wine at the Door

About This Project

Working in collaboration with clients and their architect Powlett & Associates successfully developed  a business plan to support the application for rural development funds for the conversion of a grade 2 listed redundant agricultural barn to a modern day 21st Century Cellar Door. 

The client, an award-winning producer of wines from his Essex Vineyard, identified that in order to capitalise on the sales of wine it is more profitable to sell from the Cellar Door- i.e. on site . The Cellar Door also enables customers and purveyors of fine wine to visit the vineyard, the local countryside and  taste its produce. 

The application was a success and the startling conversion completed in spring 2019. The Cellar Door regularly hosts wine tasting events, jazz events and weddings. The business works in co-operation with other local Vineyards to promote an Essex Trail of Vines and Wines and is an important paert of the local tourism offer within north Essex. 

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Funding and Grants