Little Farm
We have gained planning approval for a new build house in the metropolitan green belt near Kings Langley. This is a sensitively designed modern, low energy, four bedroom house that replaces and consolidates a collection of ramshackle sheds. The house has been designed to be of a high architectural quality, positively contributing to our built […]
Cyprus Gardens
The Client’s brief to us was to create a home extension that provided additional space for their family, with improved kitchen, dining and lounge areas, while also giving a separate therapy room for the Client’s psychotherapy business. A New Courtyard The ground floor plan uses a small courtyard as a device to both separate the […]
Laburnam Grove
Our Client appointed us for this home extension project to explore their existing house and help create a home big enough to accommodate their young growing family. This project’s design brief focused around creating a generous open plan living space at ground floor and an additional ensuite bedroom at first floor. Improved Living Space By […]
The Hayloft
We have refurbished and extended an old Victorian hayloft in Leighton Buzzard. The property was converted into a dwelling in the late 1980’s but unfortunately the conversion was not sympathetic and poorly utilised the existing structure. We were able to expose and enhance existing elements lost in the previous conversion, reconfigure the internal layout and […]
Clarendon Street
We were commissioned by our client to reconnect an existing decaying basement flat to the original Georgian Thomas Cubitt townhouse above. The property sits within the Pimlico Conservation Area and was therefore subject to stricter planning policy. The Client had very little existing outdoor amenity space and therefore the main driver of the project […]
Mill House Cottage
This project helped our client extend their modest cottage into a family home for them and their three children. Working within the constraints of a conservation area and within the curtilage of a listed building, we managed to gain planning approval for this contemporary home extension, which is connected to the original cottage via a […]
Forest Business Park
We have designed a new industrial unit on an estate in Leyton, North London. The existing site is a car park and our brief was to design a speculative unit with high clear space along with office space on a mezzanine level.
Grays Inn Road
We have had a successful pre-application with Camden for this proposal on Grays Inn Road, London, which provides commercial/office accommodation at lower ground and ground floor with a set of residential units at first floor level. The ground floor reflects the strong grid of the existing structure. First floor however picks up both the rhythm […]
Elton Road
Solving Period Property Problems The existing house suffered from a common problem found with period properties of a poor rear outlook. The kitchen was located at the rear of the property and was slightly small and confined. Upstairs there was a generous master bedroom, which was well-proportioned but the landing space was convoluted and second […]
Blackthorn Farm
An Exceptional Quality New Build House Simon Knight Architects were approached by our private Clients to produce initial designs for a new family house on a plot of land adjacent to their current home. The Farmyard Typology We were interested in taking inspiration from local vernacular forms and materials and the adjacent Farm offered some […]
London Road
Simon Knight Architects have received planning permission for four new build houses in St Albans. The proposal ensures that it sits beneath the neighbouring buildings in regards to height and mediates the change in height by expressing a contrasting material on the second floor. This ties in with the 2 storey scale that the adjacent […]
Pancake Lane
Simon Knight Architects were commissioned by our Client to design a fresh new residential building to sit on the site of an existing bungalow on Pancake Lane in the Leverstock Green area of Hemel Hempstead. Contextual Clues Looking at a strategy for the site, we have picked up on contextual cues – front garden for […]