Camberwell Terrace

This mid-terrace Edwardian house was purchased at a substantial discount as it suffered from subsidence issues. Radical and extensive structural alterations were carried out which solved these defects whilst simultaneously creating a huge open plan space at the rear of the ground floor.

This open volume, extended into the side return with plentiful roof glazing, contains the main living functions, centred around a 5 metre long cantilevered concrete dining table, the heart of a house focused on co-living and socialising. Full-width sliding doors at the rear of the house maximise physical and visual links to the small garden.

The material palette is purposefully raw and elemental - bare brickwork walls, exposed joists and steel, polished concrete screed, reclaimed timber floorboards, cast iron radiators. Birch-faced plywood is also extensively used, in the built-in joinery and also the slatted balustrades, which follow the winding route of the stair through three storeys in a continuous line, like the vertebrae of the building.

The main stair alights at first floor within a double height atrium which has a glazed floor, flooding daylight down into the deepest part of the plan at ground floor from the generous roof window above. Another large roof window illuminates a mezzanine deck accessed from the bedroom below via an alternate tread stair.

Photos by Taran Wilkhu