Stanton Williams completes house in historic Hampstead

Fleet House by Stanton Williams

Source: Jack Hobhouse

Fleet House delivers ‘urban repair’ to village’s boundary-wall tradition, says architect

Architect Stanton Williams has completed a 388sq m contemporary home that it says is a piece of “urban repair” in north London’s Hampstead conservation area.

The practice said that Fleet House, on Admiral’s Walk in Hampstead Village, drew inspiration from the idea of re-establishing lost boundaries – reinterpreting the neighbourhood’s historic “boundary wall tradition” in the process.

Stanton Williams principal director Patrick Richard said the theme was underscored by the new home’s alignment with the tall garden wall of the adjacent grade I-listed Fenton House.

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