Jersey-based practice Socrates Architects has lodged plans to refurbish a brutalist office building in the island’s capital of St Helier.

The scheme, drawn up for developer Palladium Group, would see the grade IV-listed Church House upgraded with new windows, repairs to its concrete exoskeleton, the addition of a new fourth-floor terrace and a range of internal alterations. Grade IV is the lowest level of protection in Jersey.

Socrates Architects’ design director Nick Socrates said that while the building had once been a shining example of Jersey’s post-war architecture, it subsequently fell into disrepair and had been disused for more than a decade.

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