| Location | Highgate, London, |
| Type | Residential |
| Project | Restoration, Refurbishment & Extension |
| Size | 35,000 ft² / 3,250 m² |
| Scope | Architecture, Interior Design, FF&E Design & CGI production |
The new, carefully stitched
into a historic restoration
Athlone House
Built for the industrialist Edward Brooke in 1870, this architecturally eclectic house passed through successive ownerships. Requisitioned by the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, it was later purchased by the National Health Service and converted for use as a hospital. Abandoned in 2003 the property fell into severe disrepair before being salvaged by it’s new owner.
Having knowledge of it’s vivid history, our task has been to undertake, in close consultation with the local community, a full restoration of the house and the rehabilitation of it’s grounds.
Alongside reinstating grand original features lost from the building, a contemporary yet sensitive pavilion built in perforated brickwork is added where once there stood a glass and cast iron palm house.
A riot of crenelations, Gothic traceries, Tudor chimneys and Dutch gables.
Function and ornament
meet on an elaborate
antique brass door lock.
Taken somewhere between 1874 and 1880, this historic photograph of the west-facing façade of Athlone House shows the original palm house at the north end of the building.
