Renovating and extending period homes in Winchester
Close to the centre, Fulflood and Hyde are streets of Victorian and Edwardian terraces and villas that suit side-return and rear extensions, and that almost always benefit from a full renovation at the same time: rewiring, replumbing, new heating and insulation, damp treated properly, and original features like sash windows, cornicing and fireplaces restored rather than ripped out. St Cross has larger period homes where the brief is often a considered kitchen extension or a complete reconfiguration of the ground floor.
Further out, Weeke, Kings Worthy and Oliver's Battery are mostly interwar and post-war family housing, and Badger Farm dates from the late 1970s to the 1990s, so there the brief is usually a first proper refit or a single-storey extension. Across all of them, rear and wrap-around extensions with an open-plan kitchen-diner are the most common project, along with full refits of homes that have not been touched in decades. Whatever the era, matching brick, roof and window detail is what separates an extension that belongs from one that looks bolted on.