Residential DevelopmentBrentwood, Essex, UK

The practice was commissioned to provide design proposals for the redevelopment of an outworn 1960’s era commercial site on Brentwood High Street, adjacent to the celebrated Grade II* listed White Hart ‘Sugar Hut’ Public House.

Our brief was to design a new residential oriented development based upon the retention of the ground level retail space fronting the High Street. The new accommodation is formed aside a reinstated historic access route that connects the High Street to a service road at the rear. A series of apartments is set within new massing to the High Street aspect closely following the historic grain and scale of the adjacent buildings. Three mews houses are proposed to the rear each featuring their own private garden spaces. An outcome of the new massing will be to re-establish views to the previously concealed eastern elevation of the Grade II* listed Public House.

The facades have been carefully conceived to blend in with the adjacent historic facades on Brentwood High Street and structured to provide a ‘warehouse’ character to the mews houses at the rear with a restrained palette of materials featuring throughout.