Cannibalised house to be subsumed into Newington student flats
May 8 2025
Increased cohesion will be brought to the haphazard streetscape of Ratcliffe Terrace, Newington, with plans for purpose-built student accommodation right next door to a rival 59-bed scheme.
56Three Architects have taken on an industrial brownfield site at numbers 33 to 41, building out the void with a tenement-scale insertion while absorbing the stonework of an existing two-storey property.
In a planning statement, the architects wrote: " The two-storey building at No. 43 Ratcliffe Terrace has heritage value that merits integration with the new site proposal. On its own the building is at odds with the surrounding tenemental scale and makes development of the site far more challenging.
"By removing the terracotta tiled roof, accommodation can be extended above whilst retaining the existing stone walls. These can form a feature to the site entrance and retain heritage value to the street. A slight reduction to the height of the stonework will be required and this will be carried out sympathetically to tie in with new stonework to the front facade."
The street-facing block will be joined by a larger parallel block to the year and connected by a third linking block, all framing a newly formed courtyard - formed from complementary buff stonework and brick.
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4 Comments
Give me peace.
The 'absorption' of the little two storey is a joke right??
Two other student schemes further up Ratcliffe are actually very well considered..pity this doesn't follow their lead.
Think this architect did the equally rank Student house at the bottom of Mayfield Road so not surprised..
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