Frame House
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Conversion of a house within a row of Grade II-listed mews houses set within the Holland Park Conservation Area
Externally, the front facade of the house was rebuilt to reinstate the identity of the house and continuity of the surrounding mews.
On the ground-floor the house has been divided to retain a sense of the stables that were once present, with a red-pigmented concrete floor used in the entry hallway, which acts as both a workshop and display case for our client’s collection of vintage motorbikes.
The first floor has been divided with a framework of timber studs located where the original walls stood, creating an open, but layered, kitchen and living space. The original roof structure is visible above this framework and new skylights with timber cowls bring in natural light. and
The internal roof insulation has been removed and placed externally under a zinc roof, allowing the original roof timbers to be exposed.
Data
- Begun: Sep 2011
- Completed: Apr 2012
- Floor area: 125m2
- Sector: House
- Total cost: £325,000
- Procurement: JCT Intermediate Works 2009 Revision
- Address: Holland Park, London, United Kingdom
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Professional Team
- Architect: Jonathan Tuckey Design
- Project architect: Nic Howett
- Client: Tom Lloyd
- Structural engineer: Form Structural Design
- Quantity surveyor: Arcadis
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