Bandi Drew House

Rear addition creates courtyard living.

This project forms an addition to an early 19th century sandstone cottage, thought to form part of the convict-built stables of the nearby Juniper Hall, built in 1824 for Robert Cooper. The cottage is located at the end of what is now a quiet, narrow, dog-legged lane, a Georgian remnant in the largely Victorian inner city Sydney suburb of Paddington. To the rear of the site, a 5m high face-brick wall is all that can be seen (or heard) of the busy Oxford Street retail strip.

 

 

The stone walls of the original cottage, possibly plastered at the time of construction, but now revealed externally and rendered internally, are of 400mm thick roughly-cut and found sandstone set in lime mortar.

The new kitchen and living room wrap the rear external wall of the original cottage, and the rough sandstone wall forms one side of the kitchen and dining room, contrasted by the white walls, concrete floors and exposed timber rafters of the new spaces.

Traces of an earlier 1980’s addition have been retained and can be seen in the concrete floor.

The bathroom is accessed via a space screened from the living area and open to the rear courtyard. The rear courtyard is lushly planted and a small fountain provides a soft trickling soundscape.

Bandi Drew House Gallery

Project info	Details
Team	Sam Crawford, Miles Heine
Builder	To The Mill
Consultants	Landscape: 360 degrees Structural: Dynamic Quantity Surveyor: Coutts Consulting Land Surveyor: Denny Linker and Co
Council	Woollahra
Photographer	Brett Boardman
Published	Houses Issue 64, 2008
Completion	2006

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