Mayfair Townhouses
Location: Westminster, London
, UK
Status: Planning consented
Area: 1,125m² / 12,100ft²
2020–26

A pair of 1890s Mayfair townhouses, Grade II listed and built back to front: the principal rooms face north over Mount Street Gardens, the bedrooms south onto the street. For a long-standing resident who now owns the whole building and means to preserve and enhance it, we have secured consent to reorganise it from within, lifting its seven flats to contemporary standards of light, amenity and energy.
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The largest move is to decarbonise. We remove the gas boiler that served every flat and heat the building instead with four roof-mounted air source heat pumps, their pipework run down to each flat through the existing chimney breasts. A new communal stair runs beside the building's windows for the first time, giving a long-dark core its own daylight; the relocated lift opens directly into the flats. Windows are reinstated as single glazing with laminated acoustic glass to keep the historic fenestration, with secondary glazing behind cutting heat loss and noise. Inside, we recombine some divided flats, joining the ground floor to the basement below and the top two floors to each other, so each home regains the scale and light of its principal rooms.









Process
Full redesign of vertical circulation to take advantage of an existing series of windows currently blocked by the lift
Historic research and existing photos





Drawings





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Mayfair Townhouses
Year:
2020–26
Restrictions: Grade II Listed, Conservation area
CF team: Francis Fawcett, Oliver Cooke, Andy Gibbs
Structures: Philip Cooper (CAR Ltd.)
Acoustics & Sustainability: Max Fordham LLP
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