Norfolk
·
2024
Lancet House
Built
c. 1340
Listing
Grade II*
Scope
Survey, repair, interiors
Duration
22 months
Area
310 m²
A redundant chapel made into a house for two, without losing the height of the nave.
Lancet House was a parish chapel until 1971, then a store for a builders' merchant. The nave was sound, the glass was not, and someone had laid a concrete floor over the graves.
What we did
We lifted the concrete, recorded what lay beneath and laid limecrete with underfloor heat. Living rooms sit in the nave at full height. Bedrooms are in a freestanding oak frame at the west end that touches the walls nowhere.
Then and now
Drag across the picture to see the building as we found it and as it is today.
In the rooms
“It still feels like a chapel when the sun comes through. It just has a kitchen now.”
Ruth Ames, owner







