Lifetime home

Built

Sophie Bates Architects

A contemporary, light filled garden room and three storey lift transform a four-storey life time, period house into an accessible home for an artist and her husband.

Featured in Don't Move, Improve! 2021

Adapting and extending a beautiful, period home in Richmond needed to be carefully considered as the four storeys were becoming inaccessible for the owners in their seventies. The brief was to install a three storey lift and to make the existing and new living spaces as bright as possible without compromising the feel of the house. The rear extension reads as a contemporary, separate form while respecting the local vernacular. The works included internal reconfiguration for the lift, a rear extension to open up the lower ground floor with a roof terrace above and landscaping the rear patio.

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Project information

Status

Built

Borough

Richmond upon Thames

Size

253 sq m

Estimated completion

December 2018

Location

Park Rd, Richmond TW10 6NS, UK

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