House Refurbishment, 2018
Lyndhurst Way, Peckham
This is a project to extend and refurbish a five-bedroom house in the Holly Grove Conservation area, Peckham. The area is undergoing something of a renaissance with the shops at Bellenden Road close-by and other interesting developments slightly further away such as the Bussey Building and Peckham Levels.
The original house was constructed in the period between 1842 and 1862 shortly before the railway arrived in 1867. It predates the intense development that followed the railway, at the time of its construction the area would have been regarded as out-of-town and rural. The house is Neo-Georgian in style with a simple rectangular floor plan, one room to the front, one to the back over four levels.
With no clear original bathroom spaces, a four-storey extension has been constructed providing much needed bathrooms to the first and second floor levels. The client chose to place the main kitchen and living area on the upper ground level placing a snug living room in the lower ground floor level. A new helical staircase occupies the upper to lower ground volume of the new extension and provides an enhanced sense of status to the snug living area.
The new extension is of mainly timber construction over a steel skeletal frame. It is clad in Siberian larch boards which, due the proximity of the neighbouring house was impregnated in a Class ‘0’ fire retardant treatment.
Two simple new Georgian style windows were set in the façade of the new extension to mimic the original windows but are contrasting in their scale and proportion.
The new helical staircase linking upper and lower ground is unashamedly modern and simplistic in its design in deep contrast with the overall approach.
Read the Architecture today article about this project here >
Staircase: Millimetre
Kitchen: Ian Dunn
Windows: F&E Joinery
Cladding: Vastern
Budget: £750,000 - £850,000
Location: Peckham, London, SE15 5AQ
Planning Authority: Southwark Planning
Conservation Area: Holly Grove Conservation Area
