Rear and Side Extension

Guildford

This detached four-bedroom house is located in Guildford, Surrey. The clients wanted to extend and reconfigure the house to create their ‘forever’ home.  

Studio Wolsey proposed a rear extension, to open up the back of the house and create a huge open plan kitchen / living / dining space. The contemporary zinc extension creates a sharp contrast with the existing 30’s house. A large set of corner sliding doors and concealed steelwork, allow the whole corner of the extension to open up to the garden. The top of the extension is a roof terrace, accessible from the first-floor bedrooms and creating a small south facing sun trap. The rest of the ground floor has been reconfigured to provide a separate snug, playroom, study, utility, and shower room. 

A new two storey side extension, to the front of the house, was also proposed to improve the master bedroom facilities. At ground floor this extension creates new external stores. At first floor, it allows for the removal of the existing cramped ensuite bathroom, and the creation of a new dressing room and spacious ensuite.