Hugo Road
Lower-ground kitchen and garden extension to a Victorian house
Location: Tufnell Park, London
, UK
Status: Built
Area: 171m² / 1,840ft²
2019-21
Our clients bought their Victorian house in Tufnell Park for its south-west-facing garden, but reaching it meant a basement side door and a half flight of outdoor steps. We moved the kitchen to the lower ground floor and added a side extension, opening a double-height dining room onto the garden. A ceiling under two metres became a dining room rising to four and a half. The garden, planted with Studio Bristow, was dug down to meet the new floor, while the Victorian frontage in the conservation area is unchanged.
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Inside, the house is transformed as contemporary living spaces open out to the garden, terraced in stone and pigmented render. The lush planting brings texture, colour and dappled shade right up to the building, and what our clients had always seen in the house became the focus of the whole design.
Process
Construction
Concept design
Original condition
Drawings
149.
Hugo Road
Year:
2019-21
Restrictions: Conservation area
CF team: Oliver Cooke, Francis Fawcett; Seb Birch, Liz Ferguson, Andy Gibbs
Structural design: Blue Engineering
Contractor: JK Construction
Photos: Peter Landers