This project remodels and extends a detached Victorian villa in a conservation area in Hither Green, Lewisham. The brief was to extend the house in a contemporary yet sympathetic way, which retained the character of the internal spaces, and that would make dramatic improvements to the dark, damp and unloved lower ground floor. The extension, which utilises reclaimed bricks, slots into a two storey incision in the rear façade of the house. Internally the space has been significantly reconfigured. The stair leading from the principal floor of the house to the lower ground floor has been relocated and reoriented to improve the flow through the house, while period features have been retained where possible, juxtaposing new and old elements.