KENSINGTON & CHELSEA BUILDING


PROJECTS HIDDEN HOUSE, The house that isn’t there


A private family home in Knightsbridge is virtually invisible from the street, concealed below ground and providing a precision-engineered result. Stephen Cousins reports


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f such a thing as “stealth architecture” exists, then the Hidden House, a three- bed family home located in the wealthy Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea in London, is one of the most covert examples around.


When seen from the street, the property’s single-storey white painted facade, sandwiched between two brick- built Georgian terraced houses, looks no


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different today from how it did five years ago, before the extensive renovation project began.


But the facade now conceals a sleek and precision-engineered new home, featuring 200 m2


of internal space spread across three


floors, including an expansive new basement level, open plan living areas and even a small garden. The project’s designer, London-based LTS Architects, had to tackle


HIDDEN


The white-painted facade has not changed in five years, but now conceals a sleek new home


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