The John Pounds Community Trust appointed Pritchard Architecture to develop an exciting project to breathe new life and purpose into this much loved local landmark set in the heart of Portsea, with a 'Wellbeing & Making' agenda. The project will see the building developed over a number of phases to form a community garden, unique meeting and conference space, shop, makers spaces and forge. Treadgolds is a Grade II listed building found at the top of Bishop Street In Portsmouth, providing a brief glimpse of a virtually unchanged Victorian townscape. Widely acclaimed as a kind of Victorian time capsule, it retains a Dickensian feel with its dark shop full of nuts & bolts, fascinating tools & fittings, machinery, and much of the stock used throughout the period. The site was purchased by the John Pounds Community Trust in 2013 to develop as an extension of the John Pounds Centre, currently located one street away on Queens Street. The Trust seeks to provide a ‘Gateway for a Happier and Healthier Life for All’ through inclusive activities and services for the working-class people of Portsea, with their traditional links to the Naval Dockyard.