October 31st, 2019

In 2003 The Bank of England is to moved its West country headquarters back to Exeter more than 150 years after it left the city marking a return to the city which was home to an office of the Bank from 1827 to 1834. The Bank's old headquarters, at 18 Southernhay West is also managed by Turner Locker Barnfield, closed when it moved to Plymouth to cater for the Royal Navy. Having been for great many years the regional office for the South West of England No 11 Dix’s Field Exeter has now undergone an extensive refurbishment bringing it in line with current office space requirements. The space has the a numbers of ‘UPS’ with its own private street entrance and its own cloakroom and shower facilities. Added to this there is kitchen area making No11 a self-contained building ‘within a building’ Although less than 2500 sq. ft. it has all the advantage of a self-contained building despite being part of 11-15 Dix’s Field. There is a wonderful blend of elegant period space connected to modern open plan office space given the best of both worlds. the real estate equivalent of a ‘resto-mod’ car. Air-conditioning open space and LED lighting but with period elements and features. The recent refurbishment by Heronbay has brought this listed building bang up to date. Space is available to let through letting and managing agents Turner Locker Barnfield and their joint agents LSH. Come a take a look! Quoting rental £44,000pa

Gallery of Office Space to Rent in Exeter

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July 10th, 2019

After securing another National title at Bedford as 2019 u20 Decathlon Champion to add to his indoor title Team GB has selected him for https://www.boras2019.com/  Its been quite a season to date with his 1st GB Gold medal too. After Boras he heads to University in Texas on 100% scholarship joining a squad of young world class multi-eventers at https://goutsa.com/index.aspx?path=track

March 11th, 2019

JACK Turner has vowed to keep improving after claiming his biggest success to date, a gold medal at the Under-20 Indoor Combined Events in Cardiff.  the Wellington School Sixth Former, aged 17, competed in the Heptathlon (seven events over two days) and achieved lifetime bests in 60m sprint (7.17s), long jump (7.06m), shot (12.58m), 60m hurdles (8.05s), pole vault (4.15m) and an equal PB in the final event, the 1000m.  His score of 5,430 points gave him his first GB gold medal, ahead of athletes from Spain, France, Poland and the Czech Republic. he trains five days a week, for up to 12 hours a day – in the gym at Wellington School, in Exeter and in Cardiff with Francis Baker. Baker is an ex-GB international himself, and has focused on improving Turner’s pole vault performance. Turner’s other coach, Kevin Skinner, has been with him from the start, offering vital guidance and encouragement to reach this point. Turner is grateful for the support of Wellington School, too, as he explains: “They’ve been really helpful, especially with strength and conditioning in the gym.

March 11th, 2019

February 19th, 2019

Previously ‘Stage Studios’, home to a successful Exeter stage school that has relocated, the large building has had many uses over the years, including a church hall, warehouse and a storage shed. It has been revitalised into two six-bedroom apartments suitable for young professionals or students. This stunning refurbishment began in November 2017 and was completed in July 2018, ready for the September intake of students. Turner Locker have had a long history with this building. Some 20 years ago plus we went to look at it when it was known as the Burdett Warehouse and as operated as clothing warehouse a far cry from its beginnings as Sunday School next to the Baptist church dating from the 1820’s. By this point a mezzanine floor had been installed in the former main hall. Our buyer 20yrs ago was Stage by Stage a performing arts school who eventually outgrew the premises coming back to us 20 yrs. later to re-sell the property. Having sold it gain the premises have entered another phase now as high quality student accommodation.

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Max Sayers from LS Properties says that as soon as he saw the property he thought it was a ‘brilliant space’ with bags of potential. He adds that part of the plan was always to retain the original features of the historic building, and this is evident from the quirky feel of the rooms. As well as the bedrooms, each apartment has two bathrooms, a large communal lounge and good-sized kitchen. The two lounges are key features of the properties, each offering an impressive space for socialising and relaxing. The property has been refurbished to a high standard throughout, offering superior accommodation to young people studying or working in Exeter. Thanks to Sue Cade/Devondale

Gallery of Exeter Student Housing Development

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August 7th, 2018

The decathlon got underway with and Jack Turner of Exeter Harriers coached by Kevin Skinner in action for the British team. The European U18 Championships in Olympic Sport Park Gyor Hungary attracted 1135 athletes from 50 countries including large number of Authored Neutral Athletes It started perfectly as Jack took advantage of a strong tailwind throughout the 100m heats to run a personal best of 11.17 (+3.4) in the fourth heat, taking 823 points. Next was long jump Turner leapt 6.99m (+4.0) another  personal best in the final round to earn 811 points, Those tallies combined with the 100m left him in 6^th on 1634 points. In the final event of the first session he returned to the field for the shot put (5kg). Turner once again produced a lifetime best, this time an effort of 13.05m, which was a remarkable improvement by 48cm. This moved him to tenth position after three events on 2304 points, 134 points off the podium places at the moment. Next was high jump and with slightly below par 1.94m jump he was a bit down but Turner returned to clock a fourth PB out of five in the 400m, his time 50.67 leaving  the Exeter athlete just 91 points off the podium places. Jack Turner completed the first day of the decathlon in sixth (3837 points) Now upgraded to 5th Turner started his 2^nd day with his fifth personal best out of six, clocking a 14.07 over the 110m hurdles (91cm) which moved him up to fifth in the overall standings, just 125 points outside the bronze medal position.. He re-emerged for the discus (1.5kg) with his best attempt  in round two with a mark of 39.74m leaving him very disappointed being some 5 metres off his normal throw During the pole vault his least favourite event , Turner achieved his sixth personal best out of eight events, clearing 3.70m under pressure on his third and final attempt.  Later in the javelin (500g), Turner earned another career best of 52.22m, pulling it out of the bag in the opening round. The final event at 8.45 pm was the 1500m and although well outside his best He crossed the line in 4:46.55 for 640 points It was the end of a very long two days for the athlete completed the decathlon with a huge lifetime best points total finishing in 6^th place overall with a UK all time U18 score of 7258 more than 200 points more than any Britain has scored before and only 450 points behind the world lead ANA athlete from Russia    

June 28th, 2018

After two very strong performances in Decathlon at Street & Bedford where he scored the 2nd highest ever points for a GB U18 .That placed him No1 in the UK this year and gave him top 5 world Ranking.   Jack got his GB call up - Hungary next for European Athletics U18 Championships 2018, Gyor. Over 1000 athletes from 50 countries will compete

May 4th, 2018

Why is this important?

December 5th, 2017

Acting for a private client we have sold the freehold of 8 Southernhay West formerly the offices of surveyors Smiths Gore prior to the takeover by Savills. Totalling circa 2600 sq ft over the floors the building has been modified and adapted since it was built at the end of the C18th. The guide price £500,000. The sale ran in parallel with the grant of an FRI lease of the whole building to firm of Chartered independent financial advisers.https://www.foresight-ltd.co.uk/ who are expanding and relocating from the present premises just off Southernhay East. No8 is one of a terrace Grade II* listed late 18th century red-brick townhouses built in the 1790s by their architect, Matthew Nosworthy. Nosworthy originally built four terraces in Southernhay West with a total of 42 houses.  Today only two of the terraces at Southernhay West remain, one comprising 10 houses and other 12 and, as architecture, they are exceptionally attractive. Nosworthy was given the opportunity to create a series of housing schemes in Southernhay  to cater for the increase in wealthy professionals and members of the gentry who settled in Exeter during the last quarter of the 18th century. The idea behind the Georgian expansion into Southernhay was always one of gentility, light and space, and a quiet sort of power which drew upon the prosperity of the people who would take up residence there. first of Nosworthy's four terraces, Nos. 1-10. He was very fortunate in being able to use the locally made bricks which were fired in Exeter from the deep red clay which is such a characteristic feature of the fields of Devon. The townhouses weren't all constructed at the same time. Nosworthy, was a speculative builder  and the land on which the terraces were constructed belonged to the Dukes of Bedford and it appears that Nosworthy took the almost-contemporary terraces at Bedford Square in Bloomsbury, London as his inspiration. Because each house was built individually there are subtle differences in all of them, despite the fact that as a whole they look like a uniform group. Sometimes one window is slightly higher than another, or a different batch of bricks were used resulting in a surprising variety in the colour of each house Each facade is three windows wide and on the ground floor the windows are set into arched openings. Each arched entrance is characterised with vermicuated Coadestone surrounds. The keystone above each entrance is in the form of a moulded sculptural head, also in Coadestone a sort of durable ceramic created by Eleanor Coade at the end of the 18th century proving to be immensely popular and was used on many Georgian houses in England from the late-18th century until the 1840s.

November 24th, 2017

All ready ranked as English No1 octathlete for 2017 promising 16 yr old Multi eventor Jack Turner became the English Schools U17 2017 Octathlon champion with Gold in Boston. He went on to represent England at the international in Glasgow this November at an indoor pentathlon where despite losing  most of his top events from an indoor competition ( high jump , javelin & discus) he managed 4 Pb's out of 5 and won Silver. Pipped by only 23 points out of 3600 to Gold by the Scottish athlete. Despite only turning 16 in July he'll compete as an U20 Decathlete next season along side his specialist events as a sprint hurdler & high Jumper for whihc he was ranked 7th & 8th in the UK in 2017 https://www.thepowerof10.info/athletes/profile.aspx?athleteid=377947 His older sister Anya wona a Bronze medal at the National heptathlon and was ranked  11th in the UK U20 ( 27th overall ) is looking to heading America next year on a university sports scholarship