Claremont Road

by Claremont Road

Client James and Katherine Grayley

Award RIBA South West and Wessex Award 2024

Building anything new in Bath can be a great challenge, particularly in a contemporary style. On a little backland site in a Victorian area to the east of the city, this project’s architects succeeded in securing planning permission for a new house where others had been unsuccessful with more traditional designs. This of itself is testament to their proposal’s architectural integrity and vision. The house is not self-indulgent, though, and the way effort has been directed is intelligent and effective. The low-lying, single-storey building is partly sunken into the sloping site. Behind a modest exterior, it has a strong, uniting spatial quality but remains intimate and homely.

Read the full citation from the RIBA Awards Jury on RIBA Journal.

Contractor Cleveland Construction

Structural Engineers Fold Structural Engineers

Gross internal area in m² 157