Temple Lodge Garden Rooms
The Temple Lodge Club in Hammersmith, West London, is a Grade 2 listed Georgian villa accommodating a Hotel, Restaurant and a Chapel. For many years Peter and David have been Temple Lodge’s Structural Engineers, responsible for upgrading and strengthening the existing historic fabric, replacing a deep, old drainage culvert, designing a new rooftop extension, creating a new Cross Laminated Timber chapel and most recently designing the contemporary ‘Garden Studio’ rooms for the Hotel with frameless glass, cantilevered bay windows.
The garden rooms use a form of aerated clay block jointed with 1mm thin bed mortar, a system designed to give the studios an increased thermal envelope and acoustic protection. The ground conditions were tricky – deep made ground is a feature of this part of London and to avoid deep excavations adjacent to the listed boundary wall, a mini-piled suspended slab solution was designed for the building’s foundations. Temple Lodge’s garden is a unique oasis in the heart of Hammersmith and the garden rooms take full advantage of this whilst also respecting the historic, peaceful setting.
Architect: Nicolas Pople
Garden design and build: Ryder Gardens
Photographs: Fernando Manoso | Sketch: Nicolas Pople