Urban apartments with outdoor space

Barratt is finding new ways to bring the outdoors to urban apartment living at new flagship developments in London. At newly-launched Beecham House, for example - the latest phase of Barratt London’s spectacular Great West Quarter development in Brentford, west London - extensive wrap-around verandas and terraces have been designed to extend living spaces into the open air.

And on the opposite side of town in Hackney, east London, apartments at Dalston Square feature unique ‘winter gardens’ – enclosed balconies which can be opened up in summer and closed off in winter to enable outdoor space to be lived-in and enjoyed all year round.

Barratt London managing director Alastair Baird says: “We’ve always used balconies and terraces where we can but in recent years it has been very clear – both from customer feedback and housing research – that urban dwellers prize private outdoor space and feel that it can make a significant contribution to their personal well-being.

“So now, more than ever, we ask our architects and designers to look carefully at this vital interaction between the internal and external spaces of new projects. Both Beecham House and Dalston Square represent the latest approaches.”

He added: “The developments are entirely different in style and character, but both use outdoor space as an extension of the interiors.”

Five-storey Beecham House is a showcase for modern luxury living, offering a total of just 27 studio, one and two-bedroom apartments.

With its dramatic glass frontage, the sweeping curved balconies and external architecture of Beecham House take its inspiration from the neighbouring Wallis House, a Grade II Listed Art Deco building of 1936 where all apartments are already sold out.

Beecham House has also been designed to take particular advantage of the views of Great West Quarter’s central piazza and boulevard or over adjoining Carville Hall Park, which brings a rural flavour to the scheme.

Apartments there range from 350 sq ft studios to two-bedroom homes which measure up to an exceptional 954 sq ft. Each has high ceilings and floor-to-ceiling windows to maximise the availability of natural light.

Studio apartments at Beecham House are available from £190,000, one bedroom apartments are available from £250,000 and two bedroom apartments are available from £299,000. Contact the marketing suite at Great West Quarter off Great West Road, Brentford, open daily from 10am to 6pm, and visit barratthomes.co.uk or gwq.uk.com.

At Dalston Square, where Barratt is building 550 new homes, shops, a library and archive - plus a brand new station for the East London line extension – the surrounding urban landscape is more dense than at Brentford, making outdoor space even more valuable.

Apartments are unusually large – at 625 sq ft, the one-bedroom apartments, for example, have greater area than many two-bedroom apartments. The ‘winter garden’ balconies – which have sliding screen windows and louvres which can be opened to the outside in varying degrees - extend this space by almost a further 200 sq ft.

The current phase of the development offers one-bedroom apartments at prices from £249,995. Two, three and four-bedroom apartments are also available, from £299,995.

For more information, visit Barratthomes.co.uk.