Lansdowne Crescent | Charles Tashima

This large, Grade-II listed, Victorian terrace house was originally designed as part of a unified scheme, conceived as a series of bow-fronted terraced houses, of which the two ends are flat fronted. This run of around ten houses was built between 1860-62. Each of them has four storeys, plus basement and overlooks an internal, communal crescent-shaped garden with trees.

When we started, the house was in a poor state, renovated and divided into multiple flats in the 1960s. The house was in urgent need of change. To accommodate our client’s large family (four young children), we were asked to bring the house back to its original form as a single dwelling. In doing so, we reconnected the lower ground floor with a stair to the rest of the house - having found the line of the original stone stair.

While we did add an extension, central to our work was to bring back the home’s original glory in all its detailing, character and room arrangements. This included the full restoration of all cornicing, cantilevered stone stairs, original wrought iron balustrade as well as external front balcony and rear garden stone stairs.