Think big

This London home is simply spectacular thanks to architects with a bold vision

- Pip Rich

this five-bedroom Edwardian house in southwest London has not had your standard architectural refit. It's not been given a side return infill, nor had a glass box plonked on the back. But then McLaren Excell is not your standard residential architectural firm instead it makes single-storey country farmhouses out of golden ironstone or fortress-like city homes clad in rich, grey Danish Petersen bricks. And this project is equally surprising.