This extraordinary five-bedroom Victorian house has been the subject of an extensive refurbishment and extension by architects McLaren Excell. Positioned on Ingersoll Road, a quiet residential street near Shepherd's Bush, the house is configured across four floors, with a striking corten-clad exterior at rear that opens out to a garden formed of interlocking concrete planes. The house's design seeks to combine the cool, almost monolithic qualities of concrete and corten steel with softer, richer materials in the loft extension, such as grey elm, Douglas fir and exposed brickwork.