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Stanhope Avenue House in North London
9 May 2022
Design: Iguana Architects
Location: Finchley, North London, England, UK

Photos: Juliet Murphy
Stanhope Avenue House in Finchley
Let that light in!
Stanhope Avenue House has a beautifully lit ground floor wrap around extension and internal refurbishment to a dark a fragmented period property.

The client’s child and my own attend the same school and in early 2020 they approached me because they had noticed that I was an architect and they wanted to get recommendations for builders given that they had purchased the property with planning permission in place. It was by pure curiosity that I asked them to show me the plans so that I can make the right recommendation of contractor and when they sent over the plans it became quite apparent that the planning approval which was in place was not going to meet the requirements of the clients as they would have ended up with a very low internal head height in the newly extended areas.
This seemed rather strange given that the property had potential for very tall ceilings with the right kind of approach. Never the less it was not my project so I made an introduction to one of my contractors who was working on one of my projects in Elmhurst Avenue (our third project on the same road at the time).

When the clients came to the site the contractor showed them around and I popped my head...