Track Record/Specialisms

Listed Building/Westminster/ Westminster Restoration

Ebury Street in Pimlico has had a chequered history. A stone’s throw from the Houses of Parliament it was quite grand when built in the 1830’s and then gently declined to one of the toughest slums in Westminster before beginning a re-gentrification in the last thirty years. For HEAT the project was the conversion and upgrading of a maisonette incorporating a lower ground floor looking out into a light well. We roofed over the light well with very lightweight glazed roofs and created a studio/library in the basement; inspired by the tiered galleries at the rear of the Soane Museum.

A large London Plane tree overshadowed the courtyard garden, so for evenings and night we hung a projector lamp in the tree which cast a leaf pattern onto the stone floor. The tree also filtered the daylight into the rooms in an interesting way that changed and so after weeks of trial and error we created a new paint colour for the interior which appeared to change with the seasons and, rather egotistically, christened it “Humphries White”.

Custom-made lighting, a stainless steel kitchen and a structural glass oriel window were some of the contemporary choices that work with the historic listed building.

Project 056

Won/05.02.04

Islington/Listed Building/ New Use for Basement

HEAT have obtained Planning and Listed Building consents to convert the basement of a former industrial building in Clerkenwell to provide a very valuable A3 restaurant consent. This involved detailed negotiation with the Chief Conservation Officer at Islington Council. The warehouse still had many original features, which were retained and enhanced.  A new entrance and staircase were created in a former loading bay with a contemporary feel. The premises were let to J.D .Wetherspoons, maximising the rental from an unused space in an economical way.

Project 023

Won/30.09.03

Lambeth/Listed Building/ Listed House in Stockwell

Stockwell, in the London Borough of Lambeth is home to some of London’s most interesting Georgian and early Victorian houses. This terraced house has an impressive frontage onto a tree lined crescent, but is only one room deep.

HEAT obtained planning and listed building consent for refurbishment, particularly of the basement including restoration of missing railings and re-landscaping the front garden.

Project 042

Won/06.06.03

Developer/Islington/ Clerkenwell Warehouse Conversion

HEAT have obtained a valuable consent from the London Borough of Islington to convert a C19th warehouse of 25,000 sq ft in Clerkenwell into residential use. We created ten flats and three live-work units, and retained 4000 sq ft of B1 use, adding additional space at roof level. The flats were generously proportioned with high ceilings and floor to ceiling windows and provide genuine loft living in the city. The scheme was drawn up and planning obtained within four months of appointment.

Project 057

Won/04.04.03

Developer/Kensington & Chelsea/ Kensington Tower Block

A privately owned tower block in Notting Hill Gate required extensive upgrading and refurbishment and we were brought on board by the management committee to draw up feasibility plans for the refurbishment of the block. To defray the cost of the improvements we came up with proposals to create four additional penthouse flats at roof level and we proposed a partnership with a development company. The image above shows the exploded axonometric model that we used to help plan the duplex apartments.

Project 040

Won/05.12.02

Listed Building/Outside London/ Listed Building in Bath

It is easy to forget that the  beautiful, homogenous terraces of Bath were built speculatively and piecemeal, like all Victorian housing. This end-of terrace house was completed after all the others and built without an upper storey, either because of financial constraints at the time or because the first owners did not require one.  HEAT were asked to look at the options for adding an additional storey and explored two alternatives with the planners – one with a visibly expressed mansard and the other to match the adjacent houses with a flat fronted additional storey. Which would you have chosen? 🙂

Project 054

Won/07.11.02

Camden/Permitted development/ Cottage in the Vale of Health

Sometimes planning consent is not necessary and for a charming detached cottage in the Vale of Health in Hampstead we were able to create an extension and alter the glazing under permitted development rules.

Permitted development is particularly valuable as it allows a much faster start on site, without waiting for planning consent. It can also be used to negotiate with planning authorities. We obtained a “Certificate of Lawful Proposed Use or Development” from the London Borough of Camden which is the pice of paper that you need when you come to sell the house and the lawyers ask whether you have planning consent for that extension.

Project 039

Won/04.10.02

Listed Building/Westminster/ Sloane Square Restoration

HEAT have obtained Planning and Listed Building Consent from the City of Westminster for a sensitive restoration of an early Victorian terraced house tucked behind Sloane Square.

The exterior was repointed and polished up; the interior was restored with authentic plasterwork and joinery detailing and beautiful timber panelling. At the rear permission was obtained for a rear extension, helped by the sympathetic treatment of the interior.

Project 037

Won/04.06.02

Islington/Listed Building/ Contemporary Extension in Canonbury

In the Canonbury Conservation Area in Islington, HEAT have negotiated Planning and Listed Building consent for an innovative garden room extension at the side of a semi-detached Islington townhouse. The house was in need of extensive refurbishment which included lowering the floor in the basement to provide a more spacious and airy feel for rooms that were originally designed to serve as secondary spaces.

The side extension replaces a lean-to outbuilding and garage and has a floor-to-ceiling wall of glass which faces towards the wide rear garden. To soften the transition between the glass and the landscape a sliding timber louvred screen was introduced. This provides solar screening for the glass, privacy from overlooking in an urban setting and an appropriate material to relate to the garden design and was described by the planning officers as “innovative and appropriate”

Project 020

 

Won/10.02.02

Camden/Listed Building/ Listed Apartment in Frognal

A beautiful maisonette in an early Victorian house in Hampstead with French doors leading out onto private gardens on three sides, this project had many original interior features intact. Sometimes a little sensitive tweaking to the layouts are all that is required. In this case the conversion into flats in the 1920’s had left some awkward spaces that no longer made sense and we were able to rearrange the interior layouts and introduce some additional windows, restoring the original features such as vaulted stone ceilings.

The interior was fitted out in a highly contemporary style. HEAT designed built-in furniture and leather panelling, manufactured in Italy, custom lighting made in the UK and the custom-built kitchen made in Germany. The interior furnishings were designed to visually not quite touch the walls which helped separate the old and new, a sensitive  approach that was praised by the conservation team from Camden Council.

Project 032

Won/31.01.02