Located on a quiet side street just off Deptford High Street, this award-winning two-bedroom courtyard house has been described by RIBA judges as “an exemplary response to its urban setting”. It was sold by The Modern House in 2014.

Constructed between 2003 and 2005, the house constitutes one half of a building designed by DSDHA in collaboration with their client, art historian Geoffrey Fisher.

The careful choice of materials throughout is essential to the appeal of this engaging house. It is entirely Modern in its ample use of glazing and open-plan spaces, yet is also rooted in the history of the city thanks to the use of reclaimed bricks, floor tiles and granite setts (many salvaged by Fisher from the banks of the Thames). The mass, proportions and tones of the building in Fisher’s words “embody various references to 19th-century London functionalism – buildings such as workshops, small warehouses and mews stabling”.

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