Blenheim Road

The brief here was a total refurbishment of a very large Edwardian town house within a conservation area  in Redland which was to solve the problem of providing a workable kitchen/breakfast room to replace two other kitchens which were inappropriately located.

The ground floor room selected to become the new kitchen was practically internal and not large enough to accommodate a family breakfast area.

The solution was demolish the existing outhouses and  construct a largely glazed extension and replace the single narrow window that lit the room before. By the creating of a large opening between the existing room and the extension, the new kitchen could benefit from daylight and achieve a view over the courtyard garden creating an intimate environment.

Being within a conservation area , it was important to recycle natural stone from the demolition process and incorporate this into the new design .  New materials for the windows and the free standing steel column identified this as a new extension whilst keeping references to the Edwardian building.