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Kensington and Chelsea
£250,000 to £499,999
Within a Conservation Area
Project for a rear and side extension to a mews house in a conservation area in Fulham. The project also includes the full internal refurbishment of the ground floor and lower ground floor of the property. The proposed rear extension has a simple rectilinear form, faced in grey zinc with large elements of full height glazing. The rear extension only extends by 400mm. This allows the extension to align with the first floor elevation which protrudes outwards by 400mm compared to the ground floor rear extension. Whilst the extensions only created a modest increase of floor area, the internal remodelling of the house and flooding of light from large windows resulted in a space that feels spacious, elegant and bright. The grey zinc cladding is a response to the grey slate tiles and grey barrel-vaulted dormer windows which are a predominant feature of the existing building and mews. The side extension is a quarter-circular form in elevation, referencing the dominant quarter-circular and semi-circular brick parapets of the existing building, as well as the quarter-circular brick boundary walls on the lower ground floors. The design clearly sympathises with the existing architectural detailing of the mews, while the materiality relates to the grey slate tiled roof and grey barrel-vaulted dormer windows.