Dazzling Brickwork Brightens Up a Tudor Revival Home in London

For fashion designer Amanda Winship, building her own home was a dream come true. She hired young architecture practice Surman Weston to design and build a detached two-bedroom house in the West London suburb of Surbiton. "We had a blank canvas, so it involved just thinking about how I wanted to live," says Amanda.

The architects knocked down an existing 1930s bungalow and set to work on a new 2,840-square-foot home that combines an industrial aesthetic with references the mock-Tudor style often found in the suburbs. "Surbiton has a history of Art Deco buildings," says architect Percy Weston. "Around the corner there’s a beautiful white Art Deco house, and the Grade-II listed train station is really beautiful. So we’d like to think the home is sympathetic to the area."

"We were always interested in the interplay between the industrial and the mock-Tudor aesthetic, which is so prevalent in the area," says Weston. At the back of the A-frame home, Crittall-style glazing offers a contemporary twist on the windows synonymous with the mock-Tudor genre. These are combined with slurried brick infill panels, another nod to mock-Tudor building techniques.