Nestled close to Highgate Woods, this large Edwardian terraced house looks out over a mature garden. The existing ground floor kitchen and living spaces were disconnected with a poor relationship to the garden. The owners wanted a set of living, dining and kitchen spaces to the rear of the house that had a positive relationship with one another and the garden.

The design introduced a set of strongly connected spaces facing the garden, each space with its own character - space for someone to read overlooking the courtyard - space for someone to prepare dinner and host whilst not impacting the reader in the snug.

To avoid suffocating the existing building, a courtyard is introduced to ensure natural light and ventilation back to the existing rear reception room. The courtyard also provides a break in the plan and snapshot views are captured across the courtyard and through the new spaces.

A spine wall features as a library space for the owners, dividing the kitchen, eating and snug spaces. The existing extension was re-built with its silhouette reflecting the pitch of the original conservatory - this is doubled across the site in the form of a saw tooth roof design.

High level glazing floods the living spaces with natural light, whilst steps in the floor level provide a link back to the main house.

A green roof sits on the roof slopes to elevate the garden aspect up towards the rear first floor rooms. A charred timber studio sits sunken at the bottom of the garden looking back towards the house.

Fraher & Findlay provided a full design and build service for this project the in house joinery team designed and fabricated all the bespoke joinery throughout.