Veron Road
Commercial Residential
Commercial Residential
Kura Architects were appointed to challenge a familiar typology — a once-elegant Victorian villa diminished by decades of unsympathetic accretions and institutional use. The architectural strategy prioritised repair and coherence over reinvention. A tired HMO is re-imagined as ten self-contained apartments, using careful interventions to restore dignity while embedding contemporary standards of performance, amenity and inclusivity.
The design retains and celebrates the villa’s gabled façade and stone detailing. A subservient side extension reinstates balance without mimicry, its lowered ridge and stepped façade carefully proportioned to respect the original. Internally, the plan is rationalised to optimise daylight, clarity and spatial and ciency, with living areas placed along principal elevations. A fabric-fi rst approach underpins thermal performance, replacing single-skin walls, dated windows and degraded roof coverings with high-performance elements discreetly expressed.
The design retains and celebrates the villa’s gabled façade and stone detailing. A subservient side extension reinstates balance without mimicry, its lowered ridge and stepped façade carefully proportioned to respect the original. Internally, the plan is rationalised to optimise daylight, clarity and spatial and ciency, with living areas placed along principal elevations. A fabric-fi rst approach underpins thermal performance, replacing single-skin walls, dated windows and degraded roof coverings with high-performance elements discreetly expressed.
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amenity space enhanced with native planting and biodiversity measures. The development is gas-free and future-proofed for renewable technologies. Overall, the scheme is modest in scale but ambitious in clarity — a measured architectural response that recovers a building’s character, repositions it for long-term use, and uplifts the wider street scene.