Spotlight on ... Conversions

Bawdsey, Suffolk, The Modern House
The Workshop, The Modern House
Blackstock Road, London, The Modern House
Andrew Stevenson, The Modern House

We recently launched a new Property Collections feature on The Modern House website, reflecting the diversity of Britain’s modern architectural heritage. As well as the best one-off Modernist houses, the Collections cover loft apartments, conversions, plots of land, new homes, flats on the Barbican Estate, Span houses, and much more.

Each week in our new ‘Spotlight on’ series a member of The Modern House team will select their favourite properties – past and present – within one of the Collections categories.

This week our Sales Advisor, Andrew, has selected his favourite Conversions …

Bawdsey, Suffolk
Described by The Guardian’s architecture critic Jonathan Glancey as “one of the most original and soul-stirring modern homes in Britain”, this is a wonderful conversion of an early 19th century martello tower overlooking the sea in Suffolk.

The conversion, described as “exemplary” by English Heritage and the recipient of a prestigious RIBA Award, was carried out by the architect Stuart Piercy of Piercy & Company in collaboration with Duncan Jackson of Billings Jackson Design. The tower sits on a quiet stretch of coast close the village of Bawdsey with the sea and beach in front and open farmland behind. It is situated in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and the towers at Bawdsey are designated as Scheduled Monuments by English Heritage.

The Workshop, London NW1
Designed by Henning Stummel as a family home and architecture studio, this masterful live/work house featured on Channel Four’s Grand Designs and received a RIBA award. The property occupies a secluded and peaceful backland site accessed through a gap in a Victorian terrace. Formerly a furniture workshop, it has been rebuilt to high modern standards within the same envelope.

Blackstock Road, London N5
Forming part of a converted leather factory, this two-bedroom apartment is quietly tucked away at the rear of an ivy-covered courtyard. The interior was refurbished to an exemplary standard by the previous owners in collaboration with the architect Geraldine Dening. The development consists of four flats and an office, which were created from the original factory by the architects MOOArc in 2000.

For more Conversions, check out our Property Collections.

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