ABSTRACT
The existing Regency-style house was built in the 1820s in the Ladbroke Conservation Area of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. The brief was to refurbish the house and gardens, retain as many of the original features as possible and provide a comfortable and light-filled family home, with open-plan reception rooms on the ground floor and open-plan kitchen and dining at basement level, opening on to a garden terrace. The house was in a very poor state of repair, both internally and externally. The house had been altered internally in the 1950s and later extended to the rear with a single-storey flat-roof extension. The extension to the rear was demolished, restoring the house to its original footprint and the garden to its original size.
