Listed Georgian town house restored and remodelled.

Complete refurbishment & replanning with three bathrooms. Careful restoration of existing fabric coupled with dynamic new spaces linking to a small courtyard garden.

Client downsizing from large family house into small Listed Georgian town house  (1820). Client required bath/ shower rooms on each floor and large open ground floor with kitchen/dining sitting space on one level - also requirement for workshop basement with window. Garden and house to be better integrated.

The challenge was maintaining the historical character of the original while bringing the living space into the 21st Century. Apart from considerable  ingenuity in adding interior shower rooms,  the greatest transformation is the creation of a single space out of a rear sitting room, separate kitchen, wc and conservatory whilst keeping the same footprint. This has a single span flat lead roof.

Existing house had been modified over the years and was used as a dental practice after WWII. Many of these modifications had to be undone and the house remodelled from the inside out. The quality of the construction was generally haphazard – though the original building boasts substantial stone foundations.  The planners required most of the idiosyncracies of construction to remain while new walls were built within existing ones to take precise modern fittings and finishes.

Both the client and architect were inspired by James Turrell’s light sculpture spaces, to create a similar ambience – with views of the sky day and night and capturing the effect of sunlight and moonlight. The solution is a large oval rooflight 2135 x 1625 mm which ‘focuses’ light into the space and frames the sky.