Architectural design & build — est. 2009

Built to be stood behind.

AVERLY designs and builds a small number of private houses each year, across London and the Home Counties.

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Our one belief

A house should outlast the fashion that made it.

The studio

We are architect-led and we build our own work. The drawing and the making stay in the same pair of hands, so nothing is lost in the gap between them.

AVERLY takes on only a handful of projects a year. Each one is given our whole attention, from the first sketch to the last coat of wax on a handrail. We are serious about engineering, patient about detail, and quiet about the rest. The work is the argument.

2009 Founded
4 a year Projects taken
RIBA Chartered practice
Selected work
All projects (005)
Top-lit curving stone stair rising through a white plastered hall at Ashcombe House
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Ashcombe House

Holland Park, London — Remodel & extension — 2023

A stucco villa reworked around a single top-lit stone stair that draws daylight down to the centre of the plan.

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Materials & craft

We choose materials that are honest about age.

Stone, oak, lime, bronze and board-marked concrete. Things that darken, soften and settle rather than fail. A finish should look better in twenty years than the day it was laid.

Limestone detail
Limestone Honed, not polished, so it keeps its depth.
Oak & brass detail
Oak & brass Jointed by hand, fixed to be seen.
Lime plaster detail
Lime plaster Troweled in warm off-white, alive in the light.
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