This large Victorian house in the North Oxford Victorian Suburb Conservation Area was converted into apartments in the 1970s. The first floor apartment had an extension at the side added, built on the existing flat roof terrace. A store room on the landing was converted into a cloakroom, with a new window and tiled floor. Refurbishment also included electrical rewiring, opening the chimney in the kitchen, adding acoustic insulation within the floor and replacing the old pine floor boards with an engineered oak floor. The bathroom and kitchen were also modernised.
The second floor apartment in this Victorian house in the conservation area had a windowless narrow bathroom and a gully kitchen in the smaller of the two front rooms. We enlarged the kitchen to occupy the whole of this room, taking down the partition and removing the bathroom fittings. The shower room and toilet was then installed in the existing cloakroom. The old pine floorboards were replaced with a floating floor and acoustic insulation was added between the floor joists.
