croxted road

Location: Dulwich, London
Client: The Dulwich Estate
Status: Completed 2019
Budget: £6.9 million

Residential, retail and healthcare
Croxted Road is a mixed-use scheme for the Dulwich Estate, on the site of a former dairy building in West Dulwich. The scheme comprises nine residential units (two-bed units and three-bed maisonettes), four retail units and a doctor’s surgery,

Traditional forms and materiality
The building uses familiar elements in a contemporary manner, making striking use of a dual pitch dormer roof which is clad in a burnished copper-coloured metal and rests lightly on a brick residential terrace.

Brickwork, precast and timber
Buff-toned brickwork is used extensively with openings framed in light-toned precast, also forms the surrounds of the shop front at street level, providing a civic quality to the facade. The frame is constructed from in situ reinforced concrete, with a timber frame forming the upper storeys. Both the timber roof structure and (where possible) the raw construction materials such as exposed brick and concrete soffits, are exposed internally to create the character of the spaces.

GP surgery's private courtyard
The surgery is located behind the retail units, accessed via its own private entrance pavilion alongside the pharmacy. The waiting area is top lit and the treatment rooms look onto a richly planted courtyard, creating a private, calm and relaxing environment for staff and patients alike.
 
illustrative site plan
retail units activate the street with three floors of homes above
the development is knitted into the scale of the context
entrance to the surgery is separate from the retail frontages
surgery's discrete external entry courtyard is away from the street
view of entry lobby into the surgery's top-lit waiting room
top-lit internal corridor within surgery
view of surgery courtyard with timber privacy screens
view of glazed screen into surgery archive room
GP surgery has a staff room and private outdoor terrace
maisonettes over apartments provide great homes on top of retail units activating the street
a disused dairy fronted onto the high street prior to redevelopment
brick walling and profiled metal rooftop to residential maisonettes