A House within a House

by David Leech Architects 

 Client Private 

Award RIBA London Award 2023

House Within a House is a highly crafted conversion of two flats into a single family home in the Belsize Park Conservation Area of North West London.  A previous conversion of the two lowest floors of the Victorian townhouse had stripped out any period details and had eroded the historical configuration of rooms. Any formal sense of ‘public’ or ‘private’ was lost, diminishing the scale of what would have once been the principal ‘front’ room of the house.

Read the full citation from the RIBA Awards Jury on RIBA Journal.

Contractor ASK Interiors Ltd 

Structural Engineer Structure Workshop 

Environmental / M&E Engineer Ritchie + Daffin 

Heritage Dorian Crone Heritage  

Internal area 128 m2 (gross)