Low Energy House

Location: Herne Hill, London

, UK

Status: Built

Area: 200m² / 2,150ft²

2021-24

A family had only just moved into this 1920s detached house on Herne Hill when they asked us to make it work harder. With the family growing and both owners working from home, the layout was working against them: kitchen, dining and living disconnected, one bathroom shared between every bedroom, and nowhere to work. We reorganised the house and added a new loft floor, without extending into the garden.

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Inside, we merged kitchen, dining and living into one open-plan space, drawing daylight down through a circular rooflight, and converted the garage into a study. A hip-to-gable conversion adds the loft floor, its ridge raised to line up with the house next door and its new volume clad in profiled tiles. We insulated three elevations externally, switched to internal insulation on the party side to stay within the boundary, replaced every window with triple glazing, and removed the gas boiler for an air source heat pump with mechanical ventilation and heat recovery. The garden stays whole, and the house gained everything it needed within its existing footprint.

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Concept design

Original condition of the house when purchased

Drawings

192.

Low Energy House

Year:

2021-24

Restrictions: Conservation area


CF team: Oliver Cooke, Francis Fawcett, Laura Davis-Lamarre, Millie Johnson, Zoe Cavendish

Structures: SD Engineers
Sustainability: Ben Allwood

Contractor: JK Construction