Thinking About Transforming Your Home? Meet Thread Architects in Harrogate

30 October – 1 November 2026 | Harrogate Convention Centre | Stand C355

If you’re considering extending, renovating or completely reimagining your home, come and talk to Thread Architects at the Northern Homebuilding & Renovating Show in Harrogate this October.

We’ll be on stand C355 from 30 October to 1 November, where we’ll be talking to homeowners about ambitious residential projects, from whole house renovations to listed buildings, heritage properties and high performance new homes to imaginative extensions and remodels.

For homeowners in Harrogate and across Yorkshire, choosing the right architect can make a significant difference to the success of a renovation, extension or new-build project.

Is your home ready for a new chapter?

Perhaps you’ve fallen in love with an old house, but not with the way it currently works.

Perhaps your family has grown and your home needs to grow with it or you need to downsize into a smaller purpose built property.

Maybe you have a period property full of character but dark, disconnected rooms. Or a listed building that needs careful restoration and a thoughtful approach to modern living.

Or perhaps you’re looking at a new-build opportunity and want a home that is genuinely bespoke, sustainable and rooted in its surroundings.

These are exactly the kinds of projects we love.

Expertise in heritage, listed buildings and period homes

Older buildings bring enormous opportunities, but they also bring complexity.

Our experience includes working with listed buildings, historic homes, conservation areas and heritage assets, where a successful project needs to balance the character and significance of the existing building with the needs of contemporary life.

One example is Greenfold Farm, an eighteenth-century Grade II listed farmhouse formed from two historic cottages. After years of being empty, the property faced water ingress, failing timbers and structural movement. Our approach was to carefully restore and reimagine the farmhouse while creating a home that could work for modern family life.

Greenfold Farm - a Listed home on the edge of the Peak District

We’ve also transformed a 16th-century barn with a contemporary glazed extension and complete internal reconfiguration, bringing light, connection and modern functionality to the historic building while respecting its character.

For us, heritage isn’t about freezing a building in time, it’s about understanding its history and what makes it special, and finding the right way to allow it to evolve.

Transformation of a 16th Century barn with internal retrofit and contemporary garden living room extension

Home extensions that feel like they belong

We also specialise in transforming existing homes through carefully considered extensions and remodelling.

The best extensions don’t simply provide more floor area. They can fundamentally change how a house feels and how you live in it.

A well-designed extension might bring natural light deep into a previously dark home, create a stronger relationship with the garden, improve the flow between rooms or introduce a completely new way of using the house.

We recently transformed a modest semi-detached home with a zinc-clad rear extension and internal reconfiguration, creating a much more connected family home. Elsewhere, we’ve used timber, glass, brick, stone and other carefully selected materials to create contemporary additions that sit comfortably alongside existing buildings.

Every project is different. That’s the point.

Replacement of a pebble dashed garage with a new kitchen and living space extension

Sustainable and Low-energy Home Design

Good architecture should also work hard to create comfortable homes.

We are particularly interested in low-energy and sustainable design, with experience in Passivhaus and EnerPHit design as well as retrofit and sensitive upgrades to existing buildings.

For homeowners renovating an older property, this can be an especially important consideration.

Improving insulation, airtightness, windows, heating and ventilation can dramatically improve comfort and energy performance, but historic buildings need to be approached carefully. The right solution needs to respond to the construction and character of the building rather than applying a one-size-fits-all approach.

Our aim is to create homes that are not only beautiful today, but comfortable, efficient and adaptable for the future.

A low energy timber framed home on a garden plot

Come and talk to us about your project

One of the best things about a show like Homebuilding & Renovating is that you don’t need to have everything figured out before you start.

In fact, you might only have a property and a long list of things that aren’t working.

That’s enough to start a conversation.

Whether you’re wondering whether you can build on a plot of land, trying to understand what you can do with a listed building, considering a major retrofit or simply looking for ideas, come and talk to us.

We can help you explore what might be possible, what the challenges could be and where an architectural approach could add real value to your project.

Find us at:

The Northern Homebuilding & Renovating Show
Harrogate Convention Centre
30 October – 1 November 2026
Thread Architects – Stand C355

Claim your 2 free tickets worth £24 here for visiting on any of the show days!

And if you’re visiting on Friday, come and hear us speak at 3pm in the Masterclass Theatre.

The 5 Mistakes People Make When Renovating Period Homes – And How to Avoid Them

Renovating a period property can be hugely rewarding, but there are plenty of potential pitfalls, from misunderstanding the building’s significance to approaching planning, materials or energy upgrades in the wrong way.

In this practical masterclass, we’ll share some of the most common mistakes we see and, importantly, how to avoid them.

Friday 30 October | 3:00pm | Masterclass Theatre

Whether you’re just starting to think about a project or already have plans underway, we’d love to meet you.

Come and tell us about your home, your ideas and what you’d like it to become.

If you want to Tell us about your project in advance of the show, we can arrange a time to meet up in Harrogate to talk it through in more depth.