Work

A short catalogue.

Five commissions we are permitted to show. The rest remain private, as our clients prefer. Each was designed and built by the same hand.

01

Waterstock

Oxfordshire

Completed
2025
Scope
Restoration, barn conversion, garden court
On site
Twenty-two months

A stone manor and its threshing barn, restored and drawn together around a new garden court.

The house had been altered badly twice in the last century. We took it back to its proper bones, rebuilt the barn as a kitchen and long gallery, and laid a walled court between the two. New work sits quiet beside old: flint walling, lime plaster, lead roofs dressed by hand.

02

Hallowell House

Richmond upon Thames

Completed
2024
Scope
Full restoration, stair hall, services renewals
On site
Seventeen months

A Georgian townhouse returned to its proper proportions, with a stair hall rebuilt in oak and lime plaster.

Six storeys, every one of them sagging. We re-levelled the floors on new steel hidden within the old joists, reinstated the lost cornices from a surviving fragment, and rebuilt the stair as the house's centrepiece. The brasswork was cast to our patterns and left to age.

03

The Fold

The Chilterns

Completed
2023
Scope
New-build house, flint and oak
On site
Nineteen months

A new flint and oak house in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, built to disappear into its valley.

Planning asked for near-invisibility. The house folds into the slope: bedrooms below, living rooms above, looking straight into the canopy. A brick loggia anchors the garden front. Air-tight, ground-sourced, timber-framed; old materials over a thoroughly modern chassis.

04

Redborne Mews

Notting Hill

Completed
2022
Scope
Rebuilding behind a retained facade
On site
Fourteen months

A mews house taken apart and put back together behind its retained stucco facade.

Nothing behind the facade was worth keeping, so nearly nothing was kept. A new concrete frame, a basement dug by hand, and a stair of folded steel and white resin that carries daylight down three floors. From the street, only the door furniture gives it away.

05

The Gardener's House

Hampstead

Completed
2021
Scope
Refurbishment, rear extension, garden rooms
On site
Twelve months

An Arts and Crafts house opened carefully to its garden, with a dining room that borrows the whole terrace.

The clients are gardeners first and owners second. We kept the house's irregular charm, repaired rather than replaced its joinery, and added a low brick extension that steps down with the lawn. The blossom tree by the gate was protected through every delivery.

Enquiries

If you are planning a house, we should talk.

A first conversation costs nothing and commits you to nothing. We take on six commissions a year; the diary for next year opens in autumn.