Ravine House Chesterfield, Modern Derbyshire Home, East Midlands Residence, English Property Award
Ravine House, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, UK
29 April 2022
Ravine House, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, UK
Thursday 28th of April 2022 – five projects were selected by the expert jury, who visited all of the shortlisted projects.
Design: Chiles Evans + Care Architects

photograph © Dug Wilder
Ravine House, Chesterfield – Derbyshire Property
Jury Report
The decision to keep this 1967 house seems obvious following its restoration and extension, but you have to place yourselves in the clients? shoes, who, for all its attributes, had been living in a damp and cold structure, seemingly beyond transformation. It is to the architects? great credit that they saw the wonderful potential in this quirky experimental house and took it on with energy and great sincerity to bring it forward as an exemplar renovation for the 21st century.
photo © Dug Wilder
They have taken their clients on a journey of discovery, tracking construction details back to the direct influence of Frank Lloyd Wright, to the innovations of electric underfloor heating, to an early use of double glazing, and to the mid-century modern furniture and fittings. They have then taken the house off mains gas and water supply using a geothermal borehole, introducing MVHR within an airtight skin and solar panels to reduce electricity consumption.
The jury panel enjoyed the painstaking research into restorin...