Vicars Hill, London

This late Victorian/Edwardian semidetached house sits on a step hill and looks out over a local park to the front with distant views to the east at the rear. Home to a family of five, the house is arranged over three floors with a semi basement. The garden level at the rear is almost a storey lower than the front entrance. The proposal was to rebuild and regularize a planning consent for an existing single storey rear extension and to provide an additional toilet at ground floor and a new bathroom at second floor.

The existing single storey extension had necessitated significant underpinning when it was constructed so the new proposal was to reuse and re-plan this space rather than extent it so as to minimise any new structural requirements. This has been done with the careful insertion new doors to open up and link the ground floor space and new rooflights to bring daylight as deep as possible into the main floor.

As the house only had one bathroom, additional facilities were needed. A new WC and cloak room have been carefully inserted into the ground floor in what was the side access to the garden. This has been designed with opening glazing so that access can be achieved if required. A new bathroom has been inserted at the second floor landing.

While the refitted ground floor extension is modern in design with metal windows and a metal roof to cope with the shallow pitch, the new bathroom has been detailed to match the house with the existing roof extended over it maintaining the roof pitches.

Planning Consent achieved April 2020.
Work to start July 2020.