{"id":542816,"date":"2026-04-21T12:38:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T12:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/542816\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T12:38:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T12:38:16","slug":"neil-dusheiko-architects-extends-british-home-to-frame-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/542816\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil Dusheiko Architects extends British home to frame church"},"content":{"rendered":"

A large picture window draws focus to a Gothic church<\/a> beside this house extension<\/a>\u00a0in Cambridgeshire, completed by London studio Neil Dusheiko Architects<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Named Church House, the extension project was designed for a family relocating to South Cambridgeshire from London, who were particularly drawn to the presence of the Grade-II* listed Gothic church next to the home’s conservation area site.<\/p>\n

Neil Dusheiko Architects<\/a> reconfigured both the main home and an adjacent coach house in its garden, with their layouts, openings and material palette all informed by the presence of the church.<\/p>\n

\"ExteriorNeil Dusheiko Architects has extended a home in Cambridgeshire<\/p>\n

“The project is a quiet dialogue between old and new, creating a contemporary home that feels rooted in its setting,” studio director Neil Dusheiko told Dezeen.<\/p>\n

“We wanted to create an architectural composition that brings together three distinct characters on a single domestic stage,” he added.<\/p>\n

“Church House, the Coach House and the Grade II*-listed church opposite now form a kind of spatial trinity, held in gentle dialogue across garden and sky.”<\/p>\n

\"ChurchA large picture window frames a neighbouring church<\/p>\n

Due to its conservation area setting, the front elevation of the home remains largely untouched, with the extension tucked at the rear, containing a sunken dining area.<\/p>\n

Pale brickwork was used for the extension and left exposed on the interior alongside a ceiling of oak beams, chosen to tie the new spaces in with both the brickwork of the existing home and the timber beams of the church hall.<\/p>\n

\"ChurchA sunken dining area is housed within the extension<\/p>\n

While small in size, this extension allowed the home’s original plan to be reconfigured, with views of the church immediately framed upon entering through a large, open kitchen space.<\/p>\n

A series of living spaces is organised at the front of the home, while the first floor layout was kept largely the same, with the creation of a new ensuite bathroom for the main bedroom and updated interior finishes to match the spaces below.<\/p>\n

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“The dining room is the defining moment,” Dusheiko said. “Large-format glazing frames the church tower directly in view, the floor drops to create a more intimate ceiling height, and the garden wraps around on two sides.”<\/p>\n

“It is a space that could only exist in this exact place, completely specific to its setting, and that kind of specificity is what we are always working towards,” he added.<\/p>\n

\"KitchenPale brickwork is paired with a ceiling of oak beams<\/p>\n

The adjacent coach house has also been reconfigured to function as a flexible playroom, studio and garden room.<\/p>\n

Finished with the same oak joinery as the main home and overlooking the garden and church from built-in window seats on the first floor.<\/p>\n

\"BathroomAn ensuite bathroom was created for the main bedroom<\/p>\n

Dusheiko founded his eponymous studio in London in 2011.<\/p>\n

Previous residential projects by Neil Dusheiko Architects include the extension of a home in Kent with a minimal glazed pavilion<\/a> and a charred-timber extension designed to bring its owner “closer to nature”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The photography is by Taran Wilkhu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A large picture window draws focus to a Gothic church beside this house extension\u00a0in Cambridgeshire, completed by London…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,47504,1120,309,96,7338,187027,11127,47503,40339,40340,150834,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-542816","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-british-houses","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-england","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-houses","16":"tag-neil-dusheiko","17":"tag-residential-architecture-and-interiors","18":"tag-residential-extensions","19":"tag-sectionall","20":"tag-sectionarchitecture","21":"tag-sectionexclusives","22":"tag-uk","23":"tag-united-kingdom","24":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}