PROPERTY
24 Award-Winning
Victorian Terraced
Townhouse Award Winner in the Residential Interior Private Residence London category,
of the United Kingdom Property Awards in association with Rolls Royce.

LLI Design completed a total redesign and
refurbishment of a 5-storey, period terraced
townhouse in Highgate, North London.

LLI Design’s work was commended with
an award in the Residential Interior Private
Residence London category of the United
Kingdom Property Awards in association
with Rolls Royce. The award’s judging panel
was chaired by Lord Caithness, Lord Best,
and Lord Waverley, members of the House of
Lords in the UK Parliament.

Intro Historic Highgate is filled with beautiful
period family homes, and this one was no
exception. Perched at the top of Highgate Hill,
commanding enviable views across London,
this 1860s house forms part of a terrace.

The townhouse sits within the Highgate
Conservation area, so any architectural
amendments had to be approached in a
sensitive manner.

Although the brief was to keep the period
feel of the building, it also required that a
contemporary individual aesthetic should
be overlaid in order to create easy open
plan living spaces that worked for a modern
lifestyle. The house was tall and narrow, but had the
advantage of being a quite long front to
back. A major design problem which had
to be addressed in the overall scheme was
how to make the property feel visually more
expansive laterally.

To answer the brief, the existing layouts
required a total redesign, with careful