Milltown House

Works

Creative Fields
Extension, Refurbishment

Client
Milltown House

Completion Date
Jul 12th, 2025

Front: Copper roof to new porch

Front door & porch detail

Kitchen/ Dining/ Living Room

Free-standing wood-burning stove

View from rear garden. External wall insulation to all walls.

View to Kitchen/ Dining/ Living Room from Hall. Curved wall to Cloakroom in foreground.

Sitting Room

Rear garden and granite curved wall to garden room

Garden Lighting

Curved granite-clad screen wall to conceal garden room

"Box" window surround with window seat

View of house from rear garden room

The Study Room has glass walls for visual connection with the house

Custom shelving to home office space

Stairwell with coloured glass internal windows by Bianca Da Vito & rooflight to gable

Stairwell with coloured glass internal windows by Bianca Da Vito

"Box" window surround with window seat

WC Room

ORIGINAL AREA: 155 sq.m. NEW ADDITION: 81 sq.m. VALUE: n/a DURATION: 13 months BER RATING:
The owners of this 1920’s era semi-detached property in Dublin 14 had lived in the house for a number of years, realising they needed considerable additional space and the house required an entire overhaul of the building services and structure.
Kitchen space was inadequate and dated, bathroom accommodation was insufficient for a growing family, and the living rooms were dark and restricted. Such was then orientation of the house that little natural light reached the family rooms during the day-time, while there were clear opportunities to make new penetrations to allow daylight percolate throught the building.
The new kitchen has 3.3-metre high ceilings, with a large double-glazed “t-shaped” frameless glass roof-window gathering day-light and filtering it into the central hallway. A triangular rooflight sits on the pitched roof of the gable, allowing daylight penetrate the stairwell from which it filters into the surrounding study, bathroom and dressing rooms.
The rear structure is built of ‘Poroton” terraotta clay bricks, with substantial external insulation and self-coloured render finish giving it unbeatable thermal insulation. The house boasts a moisture-activated mechanical air extraction system, a low-cost and unintrusive solution to managing internal air quality.
The stained glass panels to the period façade are designed specially for the house by the artist Bianca DiVito.
A feature wood-burning stove provides a carbon-friendly secondary heat source. New high-efficiency gas-fired boilers were installed, as were solar collector panels to service the hot water needs. A grey-water recycling system re-sues rainwater for wc’s and the agrden water feature.
Floors throughout are solid timber and natural stone, with underfloor heating throughout the ground floor.

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Milltown House

ORIGINAL AREA: 155 sq.m. NEW ADDITION: 81 sq.m. VALUE: n/a DURATION: 13 months BER RATING: