Jacqueline Green - How to Extend Your Victorian Terraced House

RIBA Publishing

JACQUELINE GREEN

Jacqueline Green, 2020

Published by RIBA Publishing, 66 Portland Place, London, W1B 1AD

ISBN 9781 85946 902 6

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Thank you to my husband, Tom, for my morning cups of tea and to Mum and Dad for always being there for me. Thanks to Victoria, Linda and Sam for their encouragement right from the start, and thanks to all of the contributors to the book, who let me use their material without charge, and to Ginny, for spotting its potential.

For Aasta and Lachlann, for being who they are.

If you are considering extending or remodelling a Victorian terraced house and are uninspired by the options available, this is the book for you. Through elegant hand-drawn plans and in-situ images, this book explores unusual ways of making a traditional Victorian terrace work, bringing all the advantages of modern architecture to a traditional house.

I have worked on more Victorian houses than any other type in my career and in fact I live in one. They are invariably well proportioned and generous in space. En masse, they make a very successful townscape and they get the balance of public and private just right. The transition from street to private living spaces is handled by devices such as bay windows and level changes that allow these to be very close even in high density areas. They are infinitely adaptable and I've been consistently surprised by how they seem to be able to be constantly reinvented.

In this beautiful and accessible book, filled with plans, sections and photographs of real projects, Jacqueline Green shows you how to get the best out of any Victorian house. Her step by step approach and the use of plenty of examples through beautiful hand drawn plans makes for a treasure trove of ideas that will be of great use either for a resident thinking about altering their home or a professional architect looking for inspiration. She looks at multiple configurations of a selection of Victorian house typologies, showing how these houses can be adapted for many different users, lifestyles and budgets.