House for an Architect, London
This project is for the extensive remodelling and refurbishment of a Victorian semi-detached house near London Fields in Hackney, London. This was a great opportunity for Ben Kilburn and his wife Jane to be both client and architect, turning the property from three flats into a five-bedroom house for them and their three daughters.
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Photographs © Charles Hosea |
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Photographs © Kilburn Nightingale |
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The upper and lower ground floors of the house have been opened up to connect both floors of living space, with a new generous double height space at the back of the house that also connects the living areas with the garden. Windows have been added to the rebuilt flank wall of the house to bring light into the hall and staircase, and the attic has been converted to usable space with a small hit and miss stair connecting it to the floor below.
The plaster mouldings to the exterior of the house have been remade and internally some of the missing mouldings have been replaced.
This was also an opportunity to make significant improvements to the energy efficiency of the property and consider different ways of upgrading older housing stock. The house has had photo voltaic and solar thermal panels fitted, and the existing fabric has been extensively improved with new insulation to walls, roof and ground floor and new double-glazed windows throughout. At the rear, the existing poor quality extension has been wrapped in insulation and clad in sweet chestnut boards.
In the media:
- 'A Bold Stroke of Genius,' London Evening Standard - 'Homes & Property' supplement, 7 January 2015
- 'Il Restyling di un'Abitazione Vittoriana nel Quartiere di Hackney a Londra,' Elle Decor - Italia, online, 14 Novembre 2014
- 'Hackney townhouse,' in Maru Magazine, Vol. 151, 2014
- 'Viktorianskt i Dalston,' in hemma Magazine, Nr. 8, 2014
- 'Flat Out,' in Selfbuild & Design magazine, July 2014
- 'On the terraces,' in The Sunday Times - 'Home' supplement, 27th April 2014
- 'Kilburn Nightingale remodels Hackney townhouse with sweet-chestnut joinery,' in dezeen magazine, online, 15th April 2014
- 'All together now' in the Telegraph magazine, Saturday, 25th Janury 2014
- 'Converted for Life' in Green, Issue 34, November 2013
See also:
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- House on Lake Naivasha, Kenya
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- Caldecott Housing, Rutland
- Goshen, Virginia, USA
- Villa du Bouchage, France
- House for an Architect
- Le Pertus, France
- House in Notting Hill, London
- House in Highgate, London
- House on Richmond Avenue, London
- House in Notting Hill, London
- Apartment in Marylebone, London
- House on the Strand, London
- House in Holland Park, London
- Nunjoro Farm, Kenya
- House for an Artist, Dulwich
- New Guesthouse on Bequia
- House in Holland Park
- Westminster Apartment, London
- Cravens Manor Barn, Suffolk
- House in Holland Park
- House in Belsize Park, London
- House in Chelsea
- House in Anglesey
- Chamonix Chalet
- House for an Artist, Hampstead
- Nightingale House
- Ward House, Kenya
- House in St. John's Wood
- House in Bayswater
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