HoughtonBudd Architects

Renovations and additions to a large end of terrace house in Abbeville Village, in Clapham, London.

The project will involve extensive internal alterations both structural and cosmetic, new functional spaces and improved circulation and will be combined with refined finishes to create a long-term sustainable family home for our clients.

Our full house renovation in Deal is now complete. More soon.

Photography Rory Gaylor

Alterations and additions to a large detached house in Herne Bay. The project will include new family rooms, a utility space and a new garden room. The project will use inexpensive, easily available low carbon materials in its design and construction including autoclaved masonry combined with bespoke hardwood windows and doors.

A separate garden room will allow the client to work from home.

A new proposal for our clients in Ebchester. Inspired in part by Jorn Utzons Fredensborg housing and taking its material cues from a previously approved scheme, the new design is a more reticent and intimately scaled addition to the grade 2 listed Prospect House to provide new breakfast and ancillary rooms following a period of reflection by our clients imposed by the Covid pandemic.

The new design will also reuse materials released by the alteration of an existing stone boundary wall which forms part of the listed setting.

Renovations and alterations to a grade 2 listed house in Deal, Kent.

A residential project in London which involves the creation of new rooms to the rear of a 3 storey mid-terraced house within the Kennington Park Conservation Area.

A new garden room and renovation of a 1970’s terrace house in Barnes, West London. A simple replacement of an uninsulated room and adjustments to existing spaces to make the house more useable and enjoyable. Bespoke structural timber windows, staffordshire quarry tiles and solid larch flooring refer to the original finishes and details of the house when built and replace unsympathetic treatments carried out by previous owners.

Photography Sue Barr

New social spaces for a 1927 architect designed family home on the Surrey borders.

Our proposal offers a new kitchen, breakfast room and terrace to extend the useful life of the house for our clients and their extended family in 2 contemporary brickwork volumes with varying heights that respond to the geometry and scale of the existing house.

The new rooms have been built using a handmade Shropshire brick with a matching flush pointed lime mortar. Bespoke painted timber windows and doors provide daylight and views of the existing garden with a chimney placed at the junction of the upper and lower volume that echo’s the existing tall chimneys to the main house.

Focussing on a large central island table a bespoke, hand painted in frame kitchen has been built to our design, combining a birch plywood construction with Carrara marble work surfaces and extensive, full height storage .

Photography Katie Anderson

We are developing designs for the alteration and addition to an apartment set within a large Victorian villa which faces onto Peckham Rye in South East London. The new arrangement will add function and character to the apartment and combines sand cast masonry, bronzed brass ironmongery with reclaimed flooring and neutral decorations to create a series of rooms designed to allow our client to both work and relax.

Our clients had lived in the property for some years but were keen to have the house refurbished and improved without removing its essential character.

An existing box stair was carefully renovated with a new roof lantern fitted to provide daylight. Existing timber floors were relaid and the original window patterns were recreated in timber.

New bespoke joinery using traditional cabinetry detailing and corian counters was installed over the original encaustic tiled floor to the kitchen; with shelving designed to display an extensive collection of classic Penguin paperbacks, together with a freestanding wardrobe installed in the master bedroom.

Though modest in scale the project demonstrates a strand of our practice which allows for a more curated approach to domestic interior space that responds and acknowledges the setting of the project rather than imposing unsympathetic additions and materials.

Photography Sue Barr

A house on the Dulwich Estate in London has been refurbished to create a family home. The original layout of the house has been retained but new openings and improved relationships between rooms create an informal and relaxed environment with a sense of scale.

Terrazzo flooring, bespoke kitchen joinery and a neutral colour palette have been used to provide a robust backdrop to daily life and the clients collection of mid-century modern furniture.

Photography Sue Barr

An Edwardian villa in West London has been extended to provide rooms for the preparation of food and informal dining. Responding to the setting the addition utilises reclaimed stock brick to create robust generously scaled accommodation with a series of generous timber windows and doors looking onto an enclosed terace and raised pond.

An existing oak parquet floor has been extended from the main house into the new rooms, creating an explicit connection between old and new.

Photography Sue Barr

A 1962 end of terrace house in Crystal Palace was extensively refurbished to provide improved accommodation for our clients and their young family.

Our proposal addressed the vertical character and scale of the house, with the ground and first floor rear windows forming a two storey bay with open-plan living spaces and more cellular arrangements at second floor.

To the street the arrangement of the elevations have been retained as originally intended to maintain the terrace character but renovated throughout with new cladding and insulation.

In keeping with the original designs back painted glass spandrel panels formed part of the overall glazing patterns.

The project was published in the Financial Times.

Photography Sue Barr

The client asked us to modernise her kitchen and provide her with a better dining room and garden room from where she could work.

Given the modest scale of the commission attention was given to bespoke joinery and good quality components. A low wall designed to bookend the sink and drainer also provides a moment of sociability being at a height which allows a family member to stand and talk.

Since their completion the rooms have also been used as a private gallery.

Photography Sue Barr

Despite its apparent size the house needed a new room in which to entertain. Designed for a professional couple and their family a new kitchen, dining room and scullery have been added to a large semi-detached stone built villa. Larch cladding panels were painted to compliment the soot stained grit stone elevations against which the new dining room sits.

Photography Sue Barr

A house with two courtyards.

In Bethnal Green in East London we created a new terrace and walled garden to provide a creative couple with sorely needed external space in which to relax as a family.

In a private courtyard bounded on all 4 sides by high brickwork walls we added an additional top-lit child’s bedroom with a small external space.

The materials of the project make explicit reference to the sites urban setting; painted aluminium cladding panels echo the solid metal access doors of the nearby warehouses and the raw timber floors further enhance the original industrial use of the building in which the apartment is situated.

The project’s interior was deliberately left unfinished.

Photography Sue Barr

Renovation of a mid-19th century locally listed workers cottage near Richmond Park in London. The house had been the family home of our client and her family for many years but its condition had deteriorated due in part to its age and also a number of awkward and unsympathetic alterations which had created problems with damp and thermal comfort.

An existing first floor internal corridor has been removed and replaced with a daylit ‘enfilade’ extending through the house which exaggerates the scale of the property without the need for extensive structural alterations. A bespoke box stair in Larch plywood was designed and built on-site; with a new top-lit shower/bathroom being accessed from the new circulation.

Throughout the project a conscious decision was made to avoid using expensive, high maintenance finishes and fittings with the emphasis being placed on making good practical rooms which will prolong the useful life of the house for our client and her family.

A new build 3 storey end of terrace townhouse in Gypsy Hill in South East London. The triangular site terminates an existing terrace of housing and is currently occupied by a large disused brick built garage belonging to the client, which will be demolished to create the footprint for the new house and garden and also provide materials for the new building.

The design is intended to be a contemporary reinterpretation of an archetypical late 19th century terraced property which makes up a large part of the immediate surroundings. This contextual approach is reinforced through the use of reclaimed stock bricks from the site and bespoke timber glazing to maximise natural light and views from the house.

A lower ground floor will combine living rooms and private courtyard spaces with 2 further floors of accommodation connected by a top lit stair well. The roof will have sedum planting and an array of PV cells to generate electricity for the house.

The scheme was approved following a lengthy consultation and planning process and is now being developed by the client.

The proposal is for three, multi-storey buildings arranged between Windmill Road and Thornhill Road in an informal, dense arrangement intended to promote a sense of ownership for the residents and an appropriate urban character given its location. Fronting Windmill Road a new 3-storey terraced building will contain a healthcare facility at ground foor with 2 foors of 1 bed, 2 person flats above accessed from a shared landing. The ground foor will be accessed via a covered entrance or ‘porte-cochere’ that also leads toward the 2, 4-storey blocks behind. Situated to the rear 2 matching 4 storey blocks conceived as large houses will be set around areas of private amenity space. These 2 blocks will contain 2 pairs of 2 bed 4 person flats at each foor with both stair and lift access, throughout the scheme generous landings will be provided to promote interaction between residents.

All 3 new buildings will be formed using full height loadbearing brickwork panels with expressed brickwork external reveals. Each building will have its own tone and type of brick as a compositional device and at each floor edge pre-fabricated concrete consoles will be tonally matched to the adjacent brickwork, creating the impression of a stacked construction.

The scheme has now been submitted to LB Croydon for their consideration.