Weston Homes has transformed a historic Grade II listed military headquarters in Aldershot into a collection of contemporary homes, with Vicaima interior timber doors helping to unite the development’s heritage character with its modern design.
The conversion of a Grade II listed building, with a history spanning over 130 years, requires thoughtful and imaginative planning at the best of times. However, this is all the more important when the building holds a special affection and relevance for a town steeped in an illustrious military past. In this instance, it was more than just bricks and mortar. The building has a lineage dating all the way back to 1894, when the Duke of Connaught, Queen Victoria’s son and General Officer Commanding for the Aldershot District, inaugurated this important headquarters for the armed forces.
This challenge, however, was more than successfully met by Weston Homes, when they re-imagined the 4th Division Military Headquarters in Aldershot. They transformed the historic site into an exclusive collection of contemporary apartments and cottages, while seamlessly retaining its original character and charming architectural features.
Bringing heritage and design together
To complement the interior layouts and design, Vicaima supplied interior timber doors from their Visual Sensations collection. For this, Weston Homes selected Dekordor® SD Forest in a cross-directional woodgrain styling. Forest, with its rich and luxurious walnut-like hue, perfectly complements the tone of the surrounding joinery and flooring and its combination of both vertical and horizontal grain directions adds an interesting design statement, as you traverse between living areas.
Multi-award-winning Weston Homes and WhatHouse? Housebuilder of the Year 2025 has long been an advocate of Vicaima innovative door products, incorporating them throughout many of its residential developments across London and the South-East. Weston Homes choice of Vicaima provides a seamless interior finish to every home, combining exceptional design with lasting quality. Working in conjunction with ABL, a Colchester-based installation company, Weston Homes specified a variety of dimensional requirements to perfectly meet the project requirements.
Flexible solutions for every specification
The Visual Sensations collection provides a wide finish and design spectrum with no less than 12 base woodgrain shades, which are each available in a selection of vertical, horizontal or cross-directional grain patterns. As with all Vicaima products, this collection is fully adaptable to meet specific project requirements. Whether that be performance fire doors, security entrance or acoustic solutions, or custom configurations such as single leaf, pairs, glazed options or decorative grooved embellishments, the range helps ensure the interior doors perfectly enhance the desired design vision.
About Vicaima
Vicaima is a leading manufacturer of interior timber doors, doorsets and associated joinery solutions, supplying products for residential, commercial and other construction applications. Known for combining contemporary design with performance and flexibility, the company offers a wide range of finishes, configurations and technical options to meet differing project requirements.
Its portfolio includes decorative interior doors alongside fire-rated, acoustic and security solutions, with products available in a variety of sizes, styles and finishes. Vicaima works closely with housebuilders, developers, architects and contractors to provide tailored door solutions that balance aesthetics, durability and performance across both new-build and refurbishment projects.
