Client: UrbanGreen ADM
This new build house was designed to fit within the historic context of a Conservation Area. It involved the redevelopment of a brownfield site in Denmark Hill to create a new 5 bedroom family house. The scheme completes the historic frontage of Grove Lane and gives the street a greater sense of unity at this point where buildings become sparser and interspersed with post war housing blocks and hospital buildings.
Taking design cues from the surrounding historic Victorian context, the scheme embodies an historic approach. Through a considered craftsman-like approach to the detailing, and by using high-quality natural materials, the new building reflects the quality and elegance of the broader historic streetscape, producing a scheme that complements and enhances its context.
Laid out over three floors are four/five bedrooms, four bathrooms, downstairs utility area and WC, front reception room, a large entertaining space to the rear which includes lounge/kitchen/dining area, and a study (or 5th bedroom). The house is beautifully-landscaped, front and back with rare off-street parking space.
Throughout the house features include curved walls, timber glazed sash windows – double glazed conservation grade (plus large skylight windows/glazing), Walnut parquet flooring, solid Walnut stairs, glorious Schiller fitted kitchen with silestone worksurface, Miele Appliances and zip hot water tap, bathrooms with Duravit / Stark sanitaryware and plenty of hand-built storage in hallways.
The main front door to the house is at ground level where you enter the bright hall which has a formal reception room with a large timber sash window to the right.
The rear room is an impressive space which forms part of an open plan kitchen/dining room with living area that opens onto a beauifully landscaped garden, with a large 3 panel aluminium sliding folding door which opens the width of the house.
The kitchen has silastone work tops, recessed lighting and a light scheme. Miele appliances are built-in and are included in the sale. The kitchen is part open-plan with an awesome breakfast bar (with further kitchen cupboards underneath). An L-shaped feature wall has built-in cupboards for crockery/pans/food etc., and the rear of the room is pretty much all glazing. The roof of the kitchen is also part-glazed with a four large skylight windows, perhaps most strikingly is the amount of natural light sweeping in from all angles.
