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Architects: Jo Cowen Architects
- Year: 2016
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Photographs:David Butler
Text description provided by the architects. Located between Falcon Park and Clapham Common, Bakery Place is the latest residential scheme from Jo Cowen Architects, designed for developers West Eleven. A series of former Victorian bakery buildings have been converted into 12 high-end homes, in the form of mews houses, apartments and a penthouse. The project combines contemporary design standards with a celebration of the development’s particular historic legacy. Bakery Place is a direct response to complex planning guidelines, and so original features have been incorporated into the development such as early glazed brickwork, corbeled cast iron columns and timber sleeper beams. These elements have in turn inspired the individual characteristics of each dwelling. For instance, each of the mews houses is named after the original purpose of different areas: The Stables, The Lodge, The Granary and The Coach House. The heritage of the development can be read through these signs of the building’s past and its imperfections, such as the deep scores along the wall of Lavender Walk, where children waiting outside for bread would run pennies along the brickwork.
