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GIBSON THORNLEY 5 CHARTERHOUSE SQUARE GIBSON THORNLEY Architect Gibson Thornley Architects Limited www.gibsonthornley.com [email protected] No.4 The Hangar Perseverence Works 25-27 Hackney Road London E2 7NX +44 (0)20 7729 7064 Project manager Ingleby Trice Cost consultant Exigere Heritage consultant Dorian Crone Dorian Crone Structural Engineers Symmetries Services Engineers XC02 DESIGN & ACCESS STATEMENT 1.0 Introduction 3.13 Basement Rear Room 4.05 Proposed Basement Floor Plan 6.02 Sash Window Proposal 1.01 Scope of the Application 3.14 First Floor Plan 4.06 Proposed WCs and Shower 6.03 Existing & Proposed Rear Elevation 1.02 The Application 3.15 First Floor Front Room 4.07 Proposed First Floor Alterations 3.16 First Floor Middle Room 4.08 Proposed First Floor Plan 7.0 Access 2.0 The Site 3.17 First Floor Rear Room 4.09 Proposed Second Floor Alterations 2.01 Borough-wide Context 3.18 Second Floor Plan 4.10 Proposed Second Floor Plan 8.0 Proposed Areas 2.02 Historic Context 3.19 Second Floor Front Room 4.11 Proposed Third Floor Alterations 2.03 Planning Context 3.20 Second Floor Middle Room 4.12 Proposed Third Floor Plan 9.0 Summary 3.21 Second Floor Rear Room 4.13 Third Floor Interior Proposals 3.0 The Existing Building 3.22 Third Floor Plan 4.14 Proposed Fourth Floor Alterations 10.0 Appendices 3.01 No.5 Charterhouse Square 3.23 Third Floor Front Room 4.15 Proposed Fourth Floor Plan 10.1 Appendix A London Borough of Islington Pre- 3.02 Building Act of 1774 3.24 Third Floor Rear Room application Letter 3.03 The Front Elevation 3.25 Fourth Floor Plan 5.0 Interior Proposals 10.2 Appendix B Planning Application Drawings 3.04 The Rear Elevation 3.26 Fourth Floor Front Room 5.01 The Hierarchy of Spaces in a Typical Georgian 3.05 Ground Floor Plan 3.27 Fourth Floor Rear Room House 3.06 Ground Floor Front Room 3.28 Stair 5.02 Typical Room Panelling 3.07 Ground Floor Middle Room 5.03 Fireplaces 3.08 Ground Floor Rear Room 4.0 Plan Proposals 5.04 Existing & Proposed Hierarchy of Spaces 3.09 Ground Floor Entrance Lobby & Corridor 4.01 Proposed Ground Floor Alterations 5.05 Existing & Proposed Wall Panelling 3.10 Basement Floor Plan 4.02 Proposed Ground Floor Plan 3.11 Basement Front Room 4.03 Proposed Ground Floor Extension 6.0 Elevational Proposals 3.12 Basement Middle Room 4.04 Proposed Basement Floor Alterations 6.01 Existing & Proposed Front Elevation 5 CHARTERHOUSE SQUARE | DESIGN & ACCESS STATEMENT 3 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 SCOPE OF THE APPLICATION This report has been produced on behalf of the Charterhouse in support of the planning application for the redevelopment of No.5 Charterhouse Square, London, EC1M 6PX. This report is solely for this purpose. The applicants do not accept any liability to any third party for the contents of this report. All areas included have been measured from plans produced during concept design stages and are approximate and illustrative only. Further development for the design, measurement and constructions tolerance may affect these areas. This report details the Client’s brief and vision, the primary constraints and opportunities for the site and the core design principles. It also illustrates the specific proposals for each element of the scheme. This Design & Access Statement should be read in conjunction with all the drawings and documents that make up the Application. The proposals and analysis of the existing building have been largely informed by the Heritage Statement prepared by Dorian Crone that also forms part of this application. 1.2 THE APPLICATION The application is made for the redevelopment of No.5 Charterhouse Square. The application follows a recent pre-application meetings with the London Borough of Islington. Islington’s pre-application advice is included within the appendix of this report. The planning application proposes the restoration of the principle building and reinstatement of many of the heritage features. A ground level, rear extension is also proposed. The existing building is largely for commercial office use with a residential apartment at the top level (fourth floor). The proposals do not alter the current land use. The building is currently vacant. The building accommodation is organised over 6 stories (basement, ground and 4 upper levels). The proposed building has its main frontage and entrance onto Charterhouse Square. A small yard exists Planning application site to the rear and shares its eastern boundary with the external space to the property on Aldersgate Street. 4 5 CHARTERHOUSE SQUARE | DESIGN & ACCESS STATEMENT 2.0 THE SITE 2.1 BOROUGH-WIDE CONTEXT Situated in the southern part of the London Borough of Islington, the site is located on the eastern side of Charterhouse Square. The site is within the Charterhouse Square Conservation Area. The site is currently occupied by an existing office building with a residential apartment at its fourth floor. The building is Grade 2 listed. The Charterhouse have recently acquired the building which is currently vacant. The proposals are for the refurbishment and extension of the existing building. There is no proposed change to the existing land-use. The site is within the southern part of the London Borough of Islington Charterhouse Square Conservation Area within the London Borough of Islington 5 CHARTERHOUSE SQUARE | DESIGN & ACCESS STATEMENT 5 2.0 THE SITE 2.1 BOROUGH-WIDE CONTEXT The site is defined by Charterhouse Square to the northern edge of the square and beyond. The death in 1611, endowed a hospital (almshouse) and occupies a building overlooking the square. (to the west) comprise commercial buildings west, No. 4 Charterhouse Square to the south, Florin northern part of the square was a former Carthusian school on the site, which opened in 1614, supporting Florin Court immediately adjacent to the site including the Malmaison hotel. The Barbican Court to the north, and the rear boundary wall of monastery founded in 1371. The Charterhouse was 80 pensioners (known as ‘brothers’). The school comprises residential apartments. It is an Art Deco complex is located just to the east of the site on the No. 124 Aldersgate Street to the east. dissolved as a monastery in 1537, and in 1545 was for boys coexisted with the home for pensioners building built in 1936 by Guy Morgan and Partners eastern side of Aldersgate Street. purchased by Sir Edward North and transformed until 1872 when Charterhouse School moved to who worked until 1927 for Edwin Lutyens, it features The surrounding context is varied without a into a mansion house. Following North’s death, the Godalming in Surrey. an impressive curved façade with projecting wings, prevailing land-use or architectural character. property was bought by Thomas Howard, 4th Duke a roof garden, setbacks on the ninth and tenth However, the buildings are largely in commercial of Norfolk, who was imprisoned there in 1570 after Following this, the Merchant Taylors’ School floors and a basement swimming pool. and residential use. The complex of the scheming to marry Mary, Queen of Scots. Later, occupied the buildings until 1933. The square Charterhouse buildings are located along the Thomas Sutton bought the Charterhouse, and on his also lends its name to a preparatory school which The properties on the opposite side of the square Overview of the site looking east 6 5 CHARTERHOUSE SQUARE | DESIGN & ACCESS STATEMENT Overview of the site looking west Overview of the site looking north 5 CHARTERHOUSE SQUARE | DESIGN & ACCESS STATEMENT 7 2.0 THE SITE 2.2 HISTORIC CONTEXT The site sits within the Charterhouse Square include properties formerly in the City of London. business or residential areas. Conservation Area and there are a number of listed Bordering on Smithfield Meat Market, this area buildings in the vicinity of the site. At the heart of has the longest history of any part of the borough. Together with the adjoining Clerkenwell Green (No.1) the conservation area is Charterhouse Square, that Buildings and streets survive from medieval times, and Hat and Feathers (No.26) Conservation Areas, is characterised by cobblestones and granite setts, including The Charterhouse, together with fine the area has a special character and appearance, iron bollards and lampposts. The Charterhouse are buildings from later centuries, many originally and special policies for the Clerkenwell/Smithfield currently taking forward improvement works to the related to Smithfield Market. The character of area exist in the Unitary Development Plan for its square and central gardens. the Charterhouse Square Conservation Area also protection and enhancement. The Charterhouse depends on its great variety of uses, and the Square Conservation Area contains a mixture The Charterhouse Square Conservation Area was juxtaposition of different activities, cheek-by-jowl, of commercial, institutional, recreational and first designated in 1969 and extended in 1994 to sets this area apart from more homogeneous residential uses. THE SITE Grade II listed buildings Grade I listed buildings Listed buildings within the surrounding context 8 5 CHARTERHOUSE SQUARE | DESIGN & ACCESS STATEMENT There are a range of buildings and features within almshouses for eighty male pensioners; these works left, three-window range over gateway. Steps up to restaurants and offices), with underground car and the tower blocks have thick upswept concrete the conservation area that are Grade I and Grade were carried out in 1613-14 and were to the design round-arched entrance; good doorcase with fluted parking, pedestrian walks and canal. Designed balustrades developed by Ove Arup and Partners in II listed. Set out below are a number of important of Francis Carter; the almshouses continue to this Corinthian pilasters, frieze with moulding upswept in 1955-59, arts centre element redesigned 1964-8; consultation with the architects in 1961.” buildings that are listed in the vicinity of the day.