AF Residence

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Projects
  • AF Residence
  • Refurbishment and Alterations to Two Storey Dwelling 
  • Limavady Co. Derry / L’Derry
  • Completed Oct 2020 

This project transforms a tired and deteriorating 2 storey house within a large underused and overgrown suburban plot into a warm and functional 4 bedroom home with a contemporary elevation to the main road and ordered and useable garden space served by a new covered garden room. 

 Situated along a busy suburban road in Limavady the renovation sought to reorganise and rationalise the interior accommodation to create a more open plan living arrangement that related to the ample garden space to the front and rear. A new square zinc clad dormer window defines the new contemporary aesthetic and a simplified palette of external colours and finishes unifies the external appearance of the building.  

This project is a good example of how an existing building with a tired and dated external appearance can be transformed sensitively to look like a modern new home relating to its street context without the need to substantially change the building envelope. 

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For this small church, the conversion to a domestic function seemed natural and uncontentious. The scale of the original church building was domestic and the decoration modest. The new function also modest and singular in purpose in that it is for a new family or people to live together in “under one roof”. Tattykeeran Church may have become simply 44 Tattykeeran Road but it is still there for those who were baptised or married in it to see and we hope it has been presented in such a way that the sensibilities of those people and the significance of those community and life events are not slighted but preserved. Certainly the comments and words from many interested visitors and parishoners to the project during construction (among them the Sunday school teacher, the sextons son) would indicate that it has been a success in this respect. A further gesture and nod of approval has come from vestry committee of the surviving Colebrooke Estate church who have reintrusted us with the original bell (it is suitably minus the clapper) made in Murphys Foundry in Dublin.