Whole-house refurbishment for the grand stucco villas, semi-detached houses and listed period homes of Holland Park — Addison Road, Melbury Road and the Ilchester and Phillimore estates. Planning, listed building consent, structural alterations, basements and party wall under one contract.
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Holland Park's houses are among the largest in prime London: the wide white-stucco villas of the Ilchester and Phillimore estates, the semi-detached and detached houses along Addison Road and Abbotsbury Road, and the celebrated artists' houses of Melbury Road and Holland Park Road, with Leighton House at their heart. A great many are listed, and almost all sit within the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea's conservation areas.
That makes a Holland Park house refurbishment a structural and heritage exercise in equal measure. Opening up floors, forming or extending a basement, reinstating sash windows, cornicing and plasterwork, and re-engineering services through protected fabric all sit alongside listed building consent, conservation review and party wall obligations to the neighbouring houses. We hold the whole project — architecture, structural engineering, surveying and construction — under a single fixed-price contract.
Our design studio is in Hampstead, with South West London consultations by appointment at 2 Eaton Gate, just off Sloane Square.
Four factors decide how a Holland Park house project runs — and we plan for all of them before site.
Most Holland Park houses are listed or within the Holland Park, Ladbroke and Norland conservation areas, so listed building consent and heritage statements govern internal and external change.
RBKC controls extensions, roof and external alterations tightly; a considered heritage case and a formal application are usually required.
Floor openings, chimney-breast removal and basements are engineered in-house — under RBKC's strict basement policy, with underpinning, waterproofing and a construction-management plan.
Terraced and semi-detached villas share party walls, so the Party Wall etc. Act 1996 governs much of the structural and basement work.
One integrated scope for period and listed houses — from measured survey to handover.
Whole-house survey establishing structure, listing or conservation status and neighbour interfaces before design begins.
Design across every floor — circulation, light and proportion tuned to a period house and to what RBKC will consent.
Conservation review, heritage statements, planning applications and listed building consent prepared and submitted.
Calculations for openings, chimney-breast removal, staircases and wall removal, with Building Control sign-off.
New and enlarged basements, underpinning, light-wells and tanking under a council-agreed construction-management plan.
Sash windows, lime plaster, cornicing, fireplaces, parquet and railings restored or faithfully reproduced.
Full rewire, replumb, heating and ventilation, with bespoke kitchens and fully tanked bathrooms.
Two-stage snagging, a clean handover with all conditions discharged, and a defined aftercare period.
From the artists' quarter to the garden-square villas, we refurbish houses across the Holland Park conservation areas.
Holland Park sits within the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea — see our Holland Park area page and South West London refurbishment overview.
Book a no-obligation consultation at 2 Eaton Gate in SW1, at our Hampstead studio, or at your property. We will give you an honest read on approvals, programme and budget band — in pounds sterling — before you commit.
Site visit · approvals read · outline budget band (GBP) · programme indication. No obligation.
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