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Kensington and Chelsea
£2m to £2.99M
1st Floor Old Town Hall , 354 Mare Street , Hackney , London , E8 1HR , United Kingdom
This Kensington Square house is a grade II listed building located within the Kensington Square Conservation Area. The building was in commercial office use & we were tasked with restoring its use back to residential, in addition to extending & modifying the house, our brief was to restore, renovate and replace missing architectural features in order to reinstate its missing character and beauty. In addition to fabric restoration we have introduced subtle & striking design interventions to compliment the house which includes a pyramidal all-glazed dining room roof, all glass staircase, gym, sauna & wine cellar. We also created a new basement extension measuring 81m2 beneath the garden which incorporated a unique light-well scoop for allowing natural daylight into the basement gym. The project required careful & detailed negotiations with the RBKC conservation team as well as with Historic England in order to unfold the building into its intended use.