John Putman Ltd

John Putman was born in the West Country and came to East Anglia after graduating as a civil engineer at Birmingham University.

Moving to Norwich, he worked as a highway engineer for Norfolk County Council, eventually specialising in the impact of new road schemes on Conservation Areas.In 1977, concerned at Local Government cutbacks, John left the Council to work part time for a Chartered Surveyor, while he restored a thatched timber framed house at Cookley, near Halesworth.

During this period he was asked to use his design and draughting skills to draw up plans for friends, and this started John’s path as an Architectural Designer and Planning Consultant, a profession which he has pursued for the last thirty years.In 1981 John moved into Halesworth to try his hand at restoring a Regency town house, and by 1985 he had moved into an early Georgian house facing over the Market Place in the centre of Bungay.

Ten years later saw his home and office move to 5 Trinity Street, and he now lives and works at The Millers House, at Bungay Staithe, a three hundred year old Suffolk long house, which for most of its life was the home of the owner of Bardolph Mill in this important historic area of the town.