The refurbishment and glazed extension of a grade II listed townhouse in Notting Hill. 

 

A detailed exercise in carefully unpicking earlier alterations to a stucco-fronted Georgian terraced house. The proposals avoid big structural interventions, focussing on small alterations to the existing windows, to the line of external brickwork, and a niche recessed into the wall thickness - a case of carrying out micro surgery to the specific areas required. 

 

The most significant of these is a glazed screen enclosing a new rear extension, its frame rebated into the brickwork, and glazing units silicone pointed.  The result is a frameless infill extension capturing an unused sliver of garden, sufficiently widened to leave a new living room, and extended up to allow a small mezzanine office to the upper ground floor. 

 

The interiors provide a paired-down classical design to sit comfortably within the stucco façade. The floors were finished in limed Douglas Fir boards by Dinesen. This is a single surface unifying all the main living areas over the upper and lower ground floors, receiving visitors at the front door and leading them through to the garden at the rear.