JOSEPH PAGET
ARCHITECT
ARCHITECT
Client: Private
Location: Sheffield
Status: Complete
Reconfiguration and full refurbishment of a two-bedroom terraced house in the Nether Edge Conservation Area, Sheffield.
The project was undertaken in phases between the years 2018 and 2022. Rather than a total overhaul, the project was approached as a five-year phase of works within a hundred-year lifetime.
Affectionately named by a friend of the practice, the mid-terraced two-bedroom house, originally an arrangement of two stacked rooms, had undergone a series of ad-hoc alterations in recent decades including a flat-roofed rear extension, the removal of internal walls, the forming of a new opening to its principal elevation and the installation of single-glazed cottage style windows throughout.
Each previous alteration to the original house was seen as an opportunity. Planning permission was granted for replacement clear-finished oak-framed casement windows to the front of the house, on the basis that the original elevation had been significantly disrupted by the new opening, and no longer warranted the Conservation Area’s requirement for traditional sliding sash windows. The ground floor layout was reconfigured, with a further wall removed and circulation reduced to create a light-filled open plan space.
The new windows were installed with painted cast stone cills and reclaimed bricks were ‘toothed-in’ to the reveals, alongside masonry repairs, resolving the poor installations of previous years. The slim glazing profiles reveal a glimpse of the house’s contemporary interior to passers by, showcasing solid oak floors from the very same locally grown and dried stock as the window frames themselves.