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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