Marlborough Place

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This project is the refurbishment and extension of a five-storey terraced house, designed by Robert Adam as a replica Georgian terrace in 2004, and sits within the St. John’s Wood Conservation Area.  

 

The relationship between the house and garden was compromised, with an awkward rear extension acting as a barrier and preventing light and views between inside and out.  The project aims to repair this with a new two-storey extension that will improve the flow of spaces and manipulate the ground levels, to create a series of bright interconnected living areas and gently stepped garden terraces. 

 

Predominantly glazed, with pale stone columns and a hipped leaded roof crowned with a rooflight, the materials of the extension have been chosen to complement the existing house.  The hipped roof form is expressed internally as a plastered volume, with softly curved edges echoing those of the living room and entrance hall ceilings. Tall bronze-framed sliding doors allow the space to open fully across the corner, transforming it into a breezy loggia. A spare bedroom, tucked under the new garden room, is enclosed within a clay toned rendered wall that carries the stuccoed rusticated base order of the existing terrace through to the new construction. 

 

The ground floor of the existing house will be re-modelled, and the entrance, living and kitchen areas linked through timber-lined openings. Timber panelled walls and a generous coved plaster ceiling detail give continuity to this sequence of spaces from front to back.  This language of timber linings and sculpted ceilings is repeated on the upper floors; the master bedroom suite will also be reconfigured to create a master bathroom with walk in shower, double basins and bath area.

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