22 Murray Mews

MATERIALS: stock brick, with sloping roofs incorporating patent roof lights, and extensive use of brick paviours inside and out.

PLAN: two storeys with storage gallery, garage and roof terrace, on tiny mews site 18m by 7m, part of which was threatened by road widening. Very deep plan determined around one internal structural wall and the staircase, but otherwise designed to be flexible. The principal living area is on the upper level, maximising the light. More flexible accommodation below, including a garage, an architect's studio with its own door, and a bedroom with its own bathroom which can also be entered separately and thus used as a studio flat.

EXTERIOR: stark, blocky, somewhat fortress-like exterior with separate volumes strongly expressed but few openings on the street front. Principal entrance on first floor up external brick stairs and set behind small dining patio; this also incorporates patent rooflights to the studio below. Windows and glazed doors have thick timber surrounds. Part-paved patio to rear.

INTERIORS: exposed brick walls (even the clamps joining the house to that next door are visible), with rendered movable walls, roof and galleries. Built-in kitchen designed by the architect, full-height Columbian pine veneered internal doors, and tiled floors. Slate worktops and door cills.