This project comprises the extension and re-modeling of the kitchen and dining area of an end-of-terrace Victorian house in a Stoke Newington Conservation Area. When such houses were originally built the kitchen had quite a different status within the home to that which it does now. Architecturally, this was reflected by its location in the more functional rear “offshot”, and half a storey down from the main reception rooms of the house. The kitchen is now perhaps the centre of the modern home, in terms of activity – be that family interaction or entertaining. By bringing inside the alley-like leftover external space adjacent the offshot through an infill extension, and by rationalising a combined open-plan living and dining area from the footprint of the existing offshot and outhouses, this design creates an exciting contemporary space with a greater connection to the back garden. The extension comprises two distinct but complimentary forms, which outwardly express the division of function between kitchen and dining areas within the open-plan space inside. The brick kitchen element features a crafted brick gable, a form generated by a desire to preserve the arched head of the original window to the current dining room (and creating a vista from its view out) while keeping the height of the eaves parapet at the party wall low. This in turn creates a vaulted internal space and maximises the light penetration to the existing house. The dining area has a contrasting pavilion-like outline, and addresses the garden with its large opening glazed screen. Befitting its garden setting, it also features a wildflower meadow roof and an integral trellis for the training of climbing plants.