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House Refurbishment - Primrose Hill |
 New Entrance Loggia, Bathroom and Library for Simon and Gayle Jenkins
Primrose Hill, London - 2007
The project involved demolishing the previous ivy covered ad hoc side entrance et cetera and creating a more generous entrance loggia, with a larger bathroom above and a new library/work space at Garden level. A new bay to the Ground Floor Drawing Room was also created. 
The whole proposition winning approval from the Primrose Hill Conservation Committee and Camden Planners (Terry Farrell's scheme in 1990 had been refused) and employing the device of an Entrance Loggia with the re-used Front Door approached by shallow brick steps. The Library is lit by a window unto the garden as well as by light coming from the loggia by means of a void. The existing staircase with its original windows is woven into the composition - reminiscent of the way Sir John Soane knitted together his houses in Lincoln's Inn Fields - and the new internal views enjoy the way the new and the old have been ingeniously combined. Simon Jenkins , who is not a great fan of Modernism, has expressed his appreciation that this modest addition to his house has very successfully blended the old with the new and is delighted by his new work space.
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