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Whittaker Parsons · East London, England, United Kingdom · 2023
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House for a Doctor
Whittaker Parsons has turned a cramped former corner shop in Bethnal Green into a warm, sustainable three-bedroom home.
The former corner shop on Globe Road in Bethnal Green.
- Practice
- Whittaker Parsons
- Year
- 2021
- Photographer
- Jim Stephenson
The project
House for a Doctor is a sustainable renovation of a three-bedroom Victorian property in Bethnal Green’s Globe Road Conservation Area, originally built by the East End Dwellings Company. The client, a cancer research doctor, shares the house with lodgers.
Whittaker Parsons favoured building less but better. The retrofit centred on salvaged and reused materials and a thorough thermal upgrade of the historic fabric, while a new entrance hall and reworked living spaces replaced the cramped layout left from the building’s life as a shop.
A dark green kitchen with open shelving and a marble worktop.
The kitchen and dining table sit on reclaimed timber floors.
A small cloakroom lined in warm timber. · A restored cast-iron fireplace with green tiles. · The 1906 East End Dwellings Company plaque on the building.
Photography: Jim Stephenson.
Credits
- Architect
- Whittaker Parsons
- Main contractor
- BCS - Building Contractor & Services Ltd.
- Photographer
- Jim Stephenson
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