Shepherd’s Bush, W6 7RN
Melrose Gardens
A Victorian house, substantially rebuilt.
- Location
- Shepherd’s Bush, London W6 7RN
- Duration
- 12 months
- Type
- Extension / Loft Conversion / Refurbishment
- Architect
- LCP
- Structural engineer
- Pringuer-James Consulting Engineers (PJCE)
A twelve-month project combining substantial structural alteration with a complete internal refurbishment: a rear extension, a second-storey outrigger extension, a new loft dormer and a full re-plan of a Victorian family house in W6.
What we did
- Rear extension at ground floor
- Structural alterations and associated steelwork
- Additional storey to the rear outrigger
- Loft conversion with a new dormer
- New shower room within the loft
- Complete refurbishment of the existing house
- New kitchen and bathrooms throughout
- Bespoke fitted joinery to the reception rooms and bedrooms
- Plaster repairs, with cornices and chimneypieces reinstated
- Internal fit-out, decoration and associated finishes
- External works and garden landscaping
Structural works
The house was extended to the rear and the existing outrigger raised by a storey, with structural alterations through the retained building to open up the ground floor. Steelwork was installed to the engineer’s design and the roof structure altered to form the new loft accommodation.
Building envelope
A new dormer was constructed to the loft, with rooflights to the extension roof bringing daylight deep into the plan. Externally the rear elevation was rebuilt and the garden re-laid, with cedar screening, stone paving and an external fireplace forming the terrace.
Materials and finishes
Internally the house was refurbished throughout, including a new kitchen, new bathrooms and a new cloakroom. Bespoke joinery runs through the bedrooms as fitted wardrobes, a window-seat bed and a built-in desk, and a new plastered arch was formed between the principal bedroom and its en-suite. The original plaster cornice and marble chimneypiece in the front reception room were retained and made good, and a new internal glazed opening borrows light from the hall.
Challenges & delivery
Building around what is kept
On a Victorian terrace the value is in what stays: cornice, chimneypieces, staircase, joinery profiles. Retained fabric was protected and recorded before demolition began, and new work was set out from the existing building rather than from the drawing, so that new and old line through.
Photographs
24 photographs of the finished house. Click one to enlarge.
