Exterior of the detached property following works


Middle left: Reception room during major structural repairs


Middle right: Reception room on completion


Making it right Case Study of a Bedford Park family home


where the innovative suburban masterplan of 1875 utilised and preserved existing field boundaries, thoroughfares and trees, to form the world’s first garden suburb. The developer, Jonathan Carr, also encouraged a broad mix of almost 500 houses of differing sizes, along with shops, social facilities, clubs and schools to allow for a more socially diverse community. Carr appointed leading architects of the time, such as Norman Shaw, to provide house designs to be used across the estate.


T 24 Listed Heritage Magazine January/February 2020


his Grade II listed property falls within the Bedford Park Estate in west London


Unfortunately, Bedford Park was besieged by financial issues and Carr himself was subject to more than 300 bankruptcy petitions over his property developments. So, when Nash Baker Architects were appointed to renovate this home, it quickly become apparent that the age old problem of developers cutting corners to reduce build costs and increase profits was perhaps just as common in the 19th century as it is today.


The new owners of this handsome Queen Anne Revival house purchased it with a view to making it their family home, with a short programme of refurbishment to make it habitable for their immediate needs, to be followed by later phases of alterations and extensions. However, early exploratory works uncovered a host of issues: damp, subsidence, structural concerns, missing foundations, historic fire damage, poor wiring, leaks, and


undersized structural timbers. The property was in need of a much more invasive scope of works to ensure that it not only provided a warm, dry and safe family home, but so it was preserved for future generations.


Nash Baker undertook an initial heritage assessment of the property to ascertain which elements held most significance; those which offered opportunity for improvement; and those which negatively impacted the property. Collectively, this analysis started to guide the design and repair process. The removal of wallpaper, floor finishes and modern fixtures allowed for further investigations and a fuller assessment of the historic fabric resulting in a detailed and thorough scope of repairs being proposed and permitted through a series of listed building consent approvals. This included sections of underpinning, the insertion of stainless-steel strengthening


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