Lewis Road – Twice Brewed
Case Study Lewis Road – Twice Brewed Field House, Lewis Road, Kettering Field House began with a difficult suburban condition: a former caretaker’s bungalow site bounded on three sides by a secondary school, overlooked from multiple directions, and positioned within a street where contemporary architecture would have been easy to resist. The existing condition. Constrained, […]
Cotton Street, Poplar – Reconstructing a Georgian Edge within a Conservation Area
Case Study Cotton Street, Poplar – Reconstructing a Georgian Edge within a Conservation Area Context 40 Cotton Street sits within the All Saints Church Conservation Area in Poplar. The site occupies a sensitive threshold condition: Opposite the Grade II* listed All Saints Church Framing a historic Georgian square Adjacent to listed terraces on Bazely Street […]
Greenbank, Chalbury – Planning Approval in an AONB and Conservation Area
Planning Case Study Greenbank, Charlbury – Planning Approval in an AONB and Conservation Area Planning Policy and Site Context Greenbank is located on the western edge of Charlbury, within both the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) and the Charlbury Conservation Area. The site occupies a sensitive position in long-distance views across the Evenlode […]
Great Peter Street, Westminster
Great Peter Street, Westminster Set within the Smith Square Conservation Area, this fourth-floor apartment occupies a distinctive historic building whose late Edwardian / early Deco character was central to its appeal. Confident yet understated, the architecture carries a quiet civic presence — ordered façades, generous proportions, and a rhythm that speaks of permanence rather than display. For […]
Penshurst Gardens, Edgware, London
Penshurst Gardens, Edgware, London Designed for practice, performance and expression. This residential house in Penshurst Gardens, North London began its transformation not as a remodel, but as a rediscovery of what the site could be. Originally a modest two-storey dwelling in need of repair, the project revealed an opportunity to reorganise, extend and reframe the home around […]
Field House, Lewis Road, Kettering
Field House, Lewis Road, Kettering Planning-approved residential scheme Field House is a planning-approved proposal for a contemporary family home within a sensitive Edwardian suburban setting in Kettering. The site — formerly occupied by a caretaker’s bungalow within the grounds of Southfield School for Girls — brought together two distinct planning challenges: a residential street where overtly modern […]
Clifden Road Terrace, Lower Clapton, London
Clifden Road Terrace, Lower Clapton, London Clifden Road Terrace is a careful reworking of an existing east London terrace house, focused on extending the building’s useful life and capacity. Originally arranged for domestic life a century ago, the house required thoughtful adaptation to support the everyday realities of a growing family. The brief was clear: find […]
Sutton Place, Hackney, London
Sutton Place, Hackney, London Bathrooms are often the most exacting spaces in a home. Their limited scale leaves little room for error, making them a precise test of spatial judgement, material control and compositional confidence. Within this early Victorian townhouse, the brief was to transform a series of compact bathrooms to suit contemporary patterns of living […]
Club Quarters Hotel, Gracechurch Street, London
Club Quarters Hotel, Gracechurch Street, London An excellent example of what can happen when a visionary client wants to convert a historic banking address in the middle of the City into a luxury business hotel. This is both an exploration of how an urban neighbourhood changes with time and a method of providing low-carbon development […]
Pine Grove, Totteridge, London
Pine Grove, Totteridge, London Hertsedge is a sensitive remodelling and extension of an Arts and Crafts house set within the Totteridge Conservation Area, undertaken within a closely observed and, at times, contested planning context. Our clients were drawn to the rural character of the setting, the inherent charm of the original house, and the long views […]