Eleven grade 2 listed Georgian houses are probably the most unusual Barratt homes to come onto the market. Barratt West London took on the houses when it acquired an island site in the Vauxhall Bridge Road, west London, which contained a set of dilapidated buildings of varying ages and uses. Barratt has risen to the specialist challenges of restoring the Georgian houses, and developed contemporary apartments alongside them to regenerate the west London streetscape.
Working with Assael Architecture, Barratt has created a mixed scheme on the site that skilfully wraps new build residential accommodation, a retail unit and a large doctor’s surgery for Westminster Primary Care Trust around the refurbished houses. The new residential accommodation is provided in three apartment buildings, one providing affordable housing, which respect the Georgian terrace but are contemporary in style. The three buildings rise to four, five and nine storeys in height, the nine storey block occupying a prominent location at the street corner, and being clad in a buff brick to complement its Georgian neighbours. With their new entrances and doors, the buildings create active frontages on all sides of the island site.
The Georgian houses have been refurbished and reinstated as family houses using traditional materials and methods of construction. Every detail, from chimney pots and sash windows to cast iron garden railings has been restored or rebuilt. But the houses have been adjusted to fit modern lifestyles, extensions having been added to create bathrooms and basements lowered to make larger kitchens.
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