Charles Holland’s east London house design for Will Wiles and Hazel Tsao Wiles brings light, colour and flair to a Victorian restoration process
Will Wiles is a friend and fan of the architect Charles Holland. So when he and his wife Hazel Tsao Wiles took on the restoration of a Victorian house of ill-repair in the Mile End area of east London, they knew who to call for help. The couple were committed to a sensitive but spirited intervention, rather than simply plugging on a rear-end oblong box.
Holland has retained the original structure, adding insulation and removing suspended ceilings, but annexed the side return. Smartly, Holland left a small square chunk of open courtyard next to Will’s little but light-filled new study. ‘If you go to the Sir John Soanes Museum, you see that his actual study is tiny,’ says Wiles. ‘It doesn’t need to be a full-size room.’
Building out from the rear of a terraced house and annexing a side return can plunge front rooms into permanent gloom, a problem the clients were keen to avoid. Holland’s solution not only brings in and shares light with the rest of the house, it gives that light variety. The rear of the house has been finished with a rough render and with the colour scheme mutedly echoing the internal pink and white split. The new side extension meets the original building with a pleasing curve, while the double-glazed windows are again a muscular mustard yellow. The metal guttering, meanwhile, is in jade green. It is all, as Holland says, ‘tightly composed’.
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