Rose Cottage

Grade II listed cottage refurbishment

Location: Hampstead, Camden, London

, UK

Status: Built

Service: Architecture, Conservation

Area: 175 m² / 1,880 ft²

2017-19

Rose Cottage is a Grade II listed cottage tucked among the terraces of the Vale of Health on Hampstead Heath. It came to its new owners in need of care, and our refurbishment reworks the rear outrigger and insulates the walls to secure its future. Small, careful changes transform the plan: reworked chimney masonry opens the two kitchen rooms to each other, a bathroom moves, and a new front door echoes an existing one. External wall insulation to the bedroom wing, carefully justified to secure listed building consent, cut energy use substantially.

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The work centres on the rear outrigger, a modest but significant addition that had grown awkward over time. Rather than remove it, we reinterpreted it, quietly transforming the plan without unsettling the whole. The result is a home suited to the way people live now, arrived at through patience and attention to what was already there.

Process

Construction

Concept design

Original site conditions

Drawings

135.

Rose Cottage

Year:

2017-19

Restrictions: Grade II listed, Conservation area

CF team: Oliver Cooke

Structural engineer: Philip Cooper, Cambridge Architectural Research Ltd.
Project manager: Nicola George Project Management
Heritage consultant: Neil Burton, Architectural History Partnership

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