Coffey Architects has completed a project to totally reimagine a Clerkenwell apartment conversion set inside a former Victorian school.

The practice stripped back a “dark and cramped” conversion, originally undertaken 20 years ago, and created a new two-storey apartment for insertion into the 1892 building using more than 30,000 individually cut-and-laid cross-section blocks of European oak.

Coffey said the home’s envelope was left open and bare to “retain the drama and history of the space” and that it had maximised the sense of openness, light and spatial quality by reconfiguring the flat’s existing mezzanine floor over the huge double-height living room. It said the main space celebrated the building’s original Victorian features, including windows, glazing and cornicing.

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