The work centres on the rear outrigger, a modest but significant addition that had grown awkward over time. Rather than remove, the approach has been to reinterpret: the existing chimney masonry is reworked to open a visual connection between the two ground-floor kitchen rooms, while a series of careful interventions — a removed partition, a relocated bathroom, a new front door that echoes an existing one — quietly transform the plan without unsettling the whole.

Energy use was substantially improved by adding external wall insulation to the bedroom wing, with careful detailing around windows and roof eaves, and careful justification in the listed building application.

The result is a home more suited to the way people live now, arrived at through patience and an attentiveness to what was already there.