East London House is a Grade II-listed house in a picturesque development built in the 1830s. At 16m, it is the width of three typical London houses. The client’s brief was to re-establish the elegance of the original, while removing the feeling of separate dwellings, and at the same time to inject a fresh, modern feel, maximising natural light and harnessing the potential of the large rear garden. These materials were chosen to provide texture and scale and to achieve a domestic intimacy. They also need to mediate between both the feel and the construction of the new and the older parts of the house, the inside and the outside.
Words by Miki Nathan
