Brierley Groom is an

architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing building ...

practice in

York York is a cathedral city with Roman origins, sited at the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England. It is the historic county town of Yorkshire. The city has many historic buildings and other structures, such as a ...

, England, founded in 1750 by architect

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, making it the longest running practice in the

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, and one of the oldest in the world. It was once run by

Walter Brierley Walter Henry Brierley (1862–1926) was a York architect who practised in the city for 40 years. He is known as "the Yorkshire Lutyens" or the "Lutyens of the North". He is also credited with being a leading exponent of the "Wrenaissance" ...

, known for having created over 300 buildings in the York area and across the

north of England Northern England, also known as the North of England, the North Country, or simply the North, is the northern area of England. It broadly corresponds to the former borders of Angle Northumbria, the Anglo-Scandinavian Kingdom of Jorvik, and the ...

. The company has won several design awards. The practice operates from an office in York and is currently owned by brothers, partners and chartered architects Greg and Matthew Groom.

Principals

(1723–1807) * Peter Atkinson (1735–1805) * Peter Atkinson II (1776–1838) * John Bonas Atkinson (1807–1874) * William Atkinson (1810–1887) * James Demaine (1842–1911) * Walter Henry Brierley (1862–1926) * James Harvey Rutherford (1874–1946) * John Stuart Syme (1872–1958) * Cecil Leckenby (1891–1977) * John K Keighley (1924–2003) * David A Leckenby (1925–2012) * Keith Groom (1939–1999) * Gregory C Groom (1965-) * Matthew R Groom (1971-)

Notable buildings

*1771 -

Harewood House Harewood House ( , ) is a country house in Harewood, West Yorkshire, England. Designed by architects John Carr and Robert Adam, it was built, between 1759 and 1771, for Edwin Lascelles, 1st Baron Harewood, a wealthy West Indian plantation a ...

*1896 - Church of St Mary, Goathland *1911 -

Sledmere House Sledmere House is a Grade I listed Georgian country house, containing Chippendale, Sheraton and French furnishings and many fine pictures, set within a park designed by Capability Brown. It is located in the village of Sledmere, between Driffi ...

- renovation by Walter Brierley after being gutted by fire *1927 -

Goddards House and Garden Goddards House and Garden is an Arts and Crafts house in Dringhouses, York, England. It was built in 1927 for Noel and Kathleen Terry of the famed chocolate-manufacturing family Terry's with the house designed by local architect Walter Brierle ...

*1991 - Scalby Mills ticket office - northern terminus of Scarborough Bay Railway *2016 - Scarborough lifeboat station *2017 - Bridlington lifeboat station

References

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