Every room reimagined — to deliver generosity, light and resolution.

Albert House is a comprehensive renovation and extension of a Victorian end-of-terrace in the London Borough of Bromley. The brief was ambitious: reimagine every room in the house while maintaining a planning-sensitive profile on a constrained suburban plot. The solution combines a full-width rear extension, a side infill and a full loft conversion to create a house of an entirely different order from its starting point.

The ground floor was opened completely — walls removed, levels re-levelled, a new structural frame inserted — to create a single flowing living space from front to back. The rear extension continues this space into the garden, with a full-height glazed wall and a raised hardwood terrace dissolving the boundary between kitchen and outside. The first floor is reconfigured to provide four bedrooms with improved layouts, and the loft conversion adds a principal suite with a gallery bathroom under a new zinc roof.

The architectural language is precisely calibrated: the original Victorian brick of the front elevation is scrupulously maintained, while the rear and side additions are expressed in a contemporary palette — zinc, brick slip and structural glass — creating a clear and honest reading of old and new.

Interior Design

A coherent interior resolved from structure to surface finish.

The interior of Albert House was developed as a continuous design exercise alongside the architecture. The material palette — Crittall-style steel windows, poured concrete floors, pale oak cabinetry, brushed plaster walls — creates a cohesive visual language throughout, connecting the new spaces to each other and to the existing house through a shared material logic.

The kitchen is the centrepiece of the ground floor: a bespoke oak and steel island that acts as the social heart of the house, connecting the cooking space to the dining area beyond and the garden beyond that. Every piece of fixed furniture and joinery was designed within the practice as part of the overall architectural commission.