Project Headlines

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Project Status: Concept design

Architectural Services: RIBA work stages 1-3

Development Area: TBC

Construction value: TBC

Client: Private homeowner

Location: Primrose Hill Conservation Area in London

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Brief & Context

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The house is a semi-detached, Italianate villa within the Primrose Conservation Area. Surveys by others identified the need for major repairs to foundations, walls and roof. Faced with having to re-build the roof, the homeowner invited us to look at loft conversion ideas. We were then asked to explore opportunities throughout the whole house and to set these out for costing and decision making.

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TJA’s Response

 

To enhance this house for the couple who now live there, we sought to understand the work carried out by those before them. We learned that its previous owners were revered late-twentieth-century architects, Sue Rogers and John Miller. We studied their drawings and made sense of their design intentions, which had become obscured by different use patterns over time. By restoring features in some areas and decongesting in other areas, our client’s needs can be met without having to start from scratch. In particular, the lower ground floor has kitchen units that are oversized for our client’s needs and there is a general sense of congestion, disconnection to the back garden and overshadowing in the front lightwell.

 

We are now tendering the internal works and forming a planning strategy to secure consent for the external works.​