DESIGN 5 - ARCHITECTS

ATHERFIELDHouse at Darling Point, Sydney

CLIENTPrivate Owners

COMPLETION1998 - 2001

DESCRIPTION

CONSERVATION WITH NEW WORKS

Built in 1870, Atherfield is a Gothic Revival House of eight

rooms with fine views over Sydney Harbour from Darling

Point. Over time, a series of mostly poor quality alterations

and additions had compromised its integrity.

Design 5 - Architects was commissioned in 1998 to

undertake radical surgery to the house and to reinstate a

more satisfactory relationship between rooms while giving

the house a new level of detail and quality lost through the

accretion of poor alterations.

The major work involved excavation for new rooms in the

lower ground floor, the construction of a verandah in keeping

with the Gothic character of the place and a new axis linking

the new front entrance to the view of the Harbour. Elsewhere,

new bathrooms, dressing rooms and a library were formed.