peckham house

There are six fine upright Regency houses (actually built in 1838, but styled in the fashion of ten years earlier) in a quiet road in Peckham, a million miles away from Del and Rodney. 

One house stands out as having a much larger garden, and having retained all of its original windows, doors, steps etc. The project is to refurbish the first floor of this house, fitting out the front reception as a library, with the rear reception being a dark hued tv room. 

The lower ground floor to be completely rebuilt, lowering the floor level and cutting away the existing ceiling to reveal the full length 11m joists. The existing walls to be demolished or cut back to provide one large open space to serve as kitchen, dinning room and utility space. This floor had received a make-over fifteen years ago which (sadly) removed just about all the original features. The second part of the project is to demolish the concrete garage and build a 'coach house' to provide a studio, store and parking. 

Simon Ball Construction as builder. 
Mervyn Rodrigues as Structural Engineer. 
Conel Wingrave as carpenter. 
E&E Systems for power and lighting 
Pawel Lis for plumbing. 
Billy Fido installed the AGA. 
Martin Thompson, Oscar Thompson and Don painted. 

The photographs are of the projects iPhone snaps, showing glimpses of the process, with 'proper' shots by Martin Thompson.