Redgrave road was a seminal project for Stuart. Woking at the weekends and whatever spare time would permit to put back together a late Victorian property which hadn’t been touch for the last 50 years or more.

In so many like properties in the area the desire is always to knock out the dividing wall between the ground floor reception rooms in the hope that this will create the much need larger room size. The property was not wide and this would have only created an awkward linear space with two fireplaces in it and no natural centre to the room. The problem with the limitations of space and dimensions of the building required a much bolder approach to creating a positive addition and much need additional area within the functional social spaces in the building. The solution was to dig and additional level into the property, but to also provide that level with ample daylight and introduce a dramatic double height space which serves to unify the ground and lower ground floor spaces.

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