Located in London’s Hampstead village within the Frognal Conservation Area, this project involved a substantial extension and renovation of an existing Georgian style early 20th century house.
The brief
Our clients have a large family and wanted a home that could hold everyone at the same time, in one of London’s most central suburbs. The house needed extending and refurbishing throughout to give them the space they needed.
Planning and the site
Because the house sits in a sensitive conservation area, we worked closely with Camden’s planning department, and secured permission for a large basement under the whole footprint of the house, along with further extensions above and behind the garage. Despite the extra space, there is no noticeable change to the house from the street.
Living in the house
The basement adds more living space, a home office and a spa. We dug out the garden beside it so that the new floor doesn’t feel underground, and redesigned the whole garden around it. Two extra guest bedrooms give room for the wider family.
A new, precisely engineered staircase in steel, glass and walnut serves all the upper floors. We moved it to free up space, which gives better proportioned rooms and a much stronger connection between the front and back of the house.
On the ground floor, dark limestone with underfloor heating gives a practical, hard-wearing finish, and continues outside through large new glass openings. The upper floors have polished walnut, also with underfloor heating. Each en suite has its own palette of materials, and the principal bathroom makes a statement with book-matched slabs of Milas Damarli ‘Lilac New York’ marble.
The refurbishment was carried out to an exacting standard throughout, with floor-to-ceiling sandblasted Douglas fir doors and ironmongery made for the house, hidden automated blinds and curtains, custom lighting and lighting control, seamless wood floors and joinery made specially for every room.
Our role
We ran the project from concept to completion, coordinating the main building contract and all the specialists, from lighting and joinery to metalwork, audio-visual and the kitchen, and overseeing the work on site. We also sourced all the furniture and handed the finished house over to our clients.
The result
Our clients now have a large, comfortable family home with room for everyone to be together, finished with care down to the smallest detail.
Located in London’s Hampstead village within the Frognal Conservation Area this project involved a substantial extension and renovation of an existing Georgian style early 20th century house.
Working closely with Camden planning department given its location within a sensitive conservation area, permission was granted for a large basement below the entire existing footprint of the house, along with further extensions above and behind the existing garage. In addition, the entire house was refurbished throughout.
The home was built to the most exacting standards, being thoroughly modernised with additional living accommodation, a home office and a spa area added in the new basement.
A new staircase is precisely engineered from steel, glass and walnut and serves all floors of the property. This was relocated to free up additional space in the plan, creating a better connection between the front and the back of the house and better proportioned rooms.
