One Heritage’s Lincoln House completes

The five-storey building in Bolton never had a chance to really fulfil its office ambitions, but, thanks to developer One Heritage, Lincoln House has found its new purpose as apartments.

Main contractor Medlock FRB has officially wrapped construction on the Nelson Street building, handing over the project.

The road to completion has been a bumpy one. Lincoln House has been vacant since construction stopped in 2011. Flash forward nine years, and the building was purchased by One Heritage. In 2021, planning permission to convert the office block into 88 apartments was secured.

Entrance of Lincoln House. Credit: Skywall Photography

Medlock FRB stripped the internal building, taking out three stair cores and installing a new stair and lift. The buildings’ non-fire-rated cladding was also removed in favour of installing a fire-rated insulated one. Windows were also replaced and the roof was repaired.

The now-finished flats include 24 studios, 40 one-bedroom apartments, 23 two-bedroom flats and one three-bedroom unit. There are also 52 car parking spaces and 20 spaces for cycles.

Most of the 88 flats are being taken by Bolton NHS Foundation Trust – which has signed a year lease for 62 apartments for key workers.

Kitchen inside one of the Lincoln House apartments. Credit: Skywall Photography

Xenia Estates is the building manager for Lincoln House. The project team to bring the building to life includes Cube Cost Consultant, Euan Kellie Property Solutions, Kennedy Redford, RJD Associates, King Associates and Allison Pike Architects.

Jason Upton, chief executive of One Heritage, said: “To see 88 homes created from a building that has been repurposed and brought to life having sat unfinished and vacant for 9 years, is incredibly pleasing.”