FULFLOOD

INFORMATION

Fairfield Road in Fulflood, Winchester, is formed of a range of Victorian semi detached and smaller terraced houses in red brick facades, which were built in the 1890s. The houses vary in scale and design and no.62 forms one western side of ten semi detached villas grouped half way along the road and defined with grand sand stone bay facades.

The original four bedroom house had been divided into two two bedroom apartments in the 1980s. The brief was to reinstate the two apartments back into one single home and to extend the ground floor to provide additional social space with good connection to the garden and the second floor to provide additional bedrooms and a study in the loft.

The elegant, tall spaces of the front living and dining rooms were carefully restored with a new large glazed window opening onto a cobbled courtyard, maintaining access to the street from the rear garden. On the other side of the courtyard a large contemporary kitchen is formed from the existing building by adding two glazed pavilions between the existing house and the walled garden. Single storey glazed pavilions are carefully positioned in relation to the brick house and garden walls to form structured external rooms; a new central courtyard and a west facing courtyard to capture the setting sun.

The wall to wall glass elevation facing the garden creates a sense of scale and connection to the mature trees and landscape. The extensions are clad in refined aluminium cladding which compliments the light red brickwork. The courtyard spaces are paved in flamed black granite with the size of the stone varying to suit the scale of the space.

The bespoke kitchen joinery and paneling is formed of birch ply, with honed stone worktops and large format porcelain floor tiles. The massing of the tall joinery units is designed to conceal a utility and bottom room space at the centre of the plan, which aligns with the courtyard and creates a buffer space between the original house and new extension to the rear.

The generous loft space was added to with two slate dormer extensions which are grafted onto the existing pitched roof forms. A tall central hallway with bespoke oak handrail forms a calm top lit space from which the four rooms are accessed. Rooms are oriented to focus on views of surrounding trees and longer views out across Winchester to St Catherine’s Hill.

The result is a careful blend of Victorian and contemporary Architecture to form a generous family home full of natural light.