Heritage Cases

Existing The site is within an existing residential area in Glenashley, Durban. There is a simple 3 bedroom single-storey bungalow centred on the site along with an outhouse and single garage. From records, the property was first developed in 1959. Architecturally, the buildings are face brick (with some painted) with steel windows and with double pitched roofs. Internally the house remains with its existing parquet timber and stone floors, of which we intend to keep / reuse as much of as possible. Previous alterations The property has undergone 2 alterations since inception, namely; 1. In 1979 – an en-suite was added to the south east elevation. 2. Circa 2000s – it appears that some of roof structure (and underlay) has been repaired. Proposal My client would like to keep as much of the charm of the existing house, while sympathetically modernising it. The house is currently too small for my client’s needs and they want to add another bedroom and double garage. The outdated kitchen and bathrooms also require work (see photographs). Therefore it was decided to convert the kitchen (which is a small, disconnected room) into the new bedroom and build a new modern kitchen intervention to the northern side of the house, which works better with the living and dining areas and allows the addition of a scullery room. Architecturally this is a low slung modern intervention with a flat roof, defining itself as new and modern against the existing house. Where new finishes are required, clues are taken from the existing materials on site, e.g: new deep ruled brickwork walls and slate flooring in the kitchen to match existing. By adding the extra bedroom, the existing family bathroom would struggle to accommodate. Therefore adjacent to the master en-suite, a new en-suite is proposed. This intervention would be in keeping with the new kitchen block on the northern end of the house.