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Architects: ODOS architects
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Photographs:Alice Clancy
Text description provided by the architects. This project sought to turn the restrictions of the site into an advantage. Sited in the grounds of a protected structure, on a lynchpin corner plot, on a street of tall Victorian Houses, it was considered virtually “undevelopable” - there had been four previous refusals for Planning on the site. The Planners had concluded that, because of the pivotal nature of the site as a visual anchor to the street, the idea of building a traditional dwelling there would detract from the character of the street and the adjoining protected structure. They were also adverse to the idea of constructing a building in a similar style to the others, as this would be viewed as pastiche replication. Indeed, they further stipulated that there should be no windows visible from the street or from three sides of the dwelling and that there would be strict height restrictions imposed.
