Whitworth is an award-winning practice of Chartered Architects and Chartered Building Surveyors. We provide a bespoke and comprehensive service from inception through to completion, offering flexibility over our involvement to align with our clients’ needs.
When our clients bought this bungalow originally constructed in the 1970s, their brief was to convert the property into a modern family home. The ensuing bungalow conversion involved re-purposing the existing roof space, opening out the ground floor accommodation and making the most of views over the rolling Suffolk countryside.
Walls dividing the rooms on the ground floor were removed to provide an open plan living, kitchen and dining space. A double set of large sliding doors were added, spanning almost the entire width of the rear of the property. This allowed plenty of natural light to flood the space, as well as creating better flow into the generous patio and garden area.
The original integrated garage has been converted into a snug with a glazed oak gable to the front of the house. This aesthetically pleasing feature fronted an extension to the living space, with the added purpose of introducing even more light into the property.
A retro-fit underfloor heating system has been laid over the existing floor slab. Additionally, the whole house has been clad externally in insulated render. Both of these alterations contribute to upgraded thermal performance and improve the property’s visual appearance.
At first floor level the former attic space has been converted to provide two additional bedrooms and a bathroom. Not only is increased value an obvious benefit of this process, but the bungalow conversion into a two-storey property transforms a previously rarely used storage space into a warm and inviting living area, making the most of the property’s potential.
The whole space has been converted from within, without having to remove any roof coverings and the new layout and structure has fitted neatly into the space.
The outcome is a beautiful new family home set within the footprint of the original bungalow.
Whitworth is pleased to have completed phase one of the reordering works at All Saints Church in Stanton, near Bury St Edmunds. This is a project focused on helping this much-loved historic building continue to serve its community for generations to come.
In 2023, Whitworth were approach by our client to sympathetically carry out the conversion of an existing 1980s garage, originally built to accommodate the previous owner’s Ferrari, to a new one-bedroom annexe accommodation.
Whitworth oversaw the restoration of the historic Martello Tower in Aldeburgh, the largest of its kind from the Napoleonic Wars.