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.
This project saw the transformation of a modest South Norfolk bungalow into a spacious, light-filled family home. This thoughtful extension maximises entertaining space, enhances the entrance, and integrates the basement garage while maintaining the property's rural charm.
The brief for this project was to adapt this modest family bungalow in South Norfolk to create improved entertaining and family space, as well as making better use of the subterranean garage and improving the property’s entrance way.
This was achieved through extending the property to the side and over the existing basement garage. Due to the property’s rural outlook, keeping the low-level single story feel was important in this instance. However, making use of the slightly raised interior allowed interest to be added to the floor plan.
Extension allowed for a large, open-plan family and entertaining space consisting of a new, impressive central entrance hall, alongside a smaller family living room. The entertaining space opens onto a large external raised terrace, creating a feel of combined inside-outside space. The light, open feel to the living space is enhanced by the high vaulted ceilings, the large roof lights, and the doors and windows.
The placement was also extended to four main multi-use spaces that can evolve over the years as the needs of the owners change.
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.
Discover how this Grade II Listed brick barn was transformed into a stunning contemporary home while preserving its history. Featuring an open-plan living-kitchen space, a sleek glazed link to a new living room extension, and a carefully engineered cantilever staircase, the design blends modern style with original features.