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Atelier T&B

Working closely with homeowners, developers, and local communities, we specialise in residential architecture that balances creativity with practicality.

Atelier T&B provide bespoke architectural services ensuring that our client’s visions are met through innovative architectural design with functional expertise to transform your ideas from design to completion. Atelier T&B is a West Sussex–based architectural practice founded and run by soon to be husband-and-wife team with a shared passion for thoughtful, well-crafted design. Our approach is pers

onal and collaborative — we believe the best projects emerge from strong relationships, clear communication, and a deep understanding of how people live. Rooted in West Sussex, our work responds sensitively to its landscapes, villages, and heritage. Whether transforming existing buildings, extending family homes, or designing new dwellings from the ground up, we focus on proportion and detail to create spaces that feel both timeless and contemporary.

28/08/2026

01 | Henfield

Planning approved for a carefully considered home transformation in Henfield.

Approved in December 2024, this project focused on reworking an existing home to create a more practical, generous and connected family living arrangement.

The brief included a new open-plan kitchen, living and dining area with a stronger relationship to the garden, alongside a large master suite with ensuite and dressing area. Improvements to the existing roof also allowed a previous garage conversion to become a much more usable bedroom space.

Internally, the proposals improved circulation and room layouts throughout the home, while retaining a separate drawing room to the front of the property.

The application faced strong neighbour opposition, including concerns around light, amenity and the scale of the proposal. Through careful design, supporting information and clear planning arguments, the scheme was approved without the need to alter the design.

A good example of how a well-considered extension can unlock the potential of an existing home, while still respecting its setting.

02 | Front Elevation

03 | Refined Frontage

04 | Existing Front

05 | Original Approach

06 | Garden Elevation

07 | Rear Extension

08 | Existing Rear

09 | Original Garden Elevation

10 | Planning Visual

26/08/2026

01 | Tender package

A closer look at a tender package currently being developed for a replacement dwelling in rural West Sussex.

At this stage, the drawings are intended to provide enough information for the project to be priced, coordinated and reviewed before the next stage of detailed design.

The package includes general arrangement plans, elevations, sections, early build-ups and an accompanying schedule of materials, setting out the developing approach to layout, construction and specification.

For this project, we have prepared two routes for consideration, a traditional construction option and a timber frame option. Once the preferred route has been agreed, the Building Regulations and construction issue package will be developed in further detail.

02 | Plan Development

03 | Elevation Study

04 | Sectional Coordination

05 | Construction Build-Up

06 | Material Schedule

24/08/2026

Site Progress | Wargrave

With the foundations in and the steel frame now defining the structure and footprint, the project is beginning to take shape on site.

More to follow as work progresses.

22/08/2026

01 | Cuckfield

A considered transformation of an existing home

A recently built home with significant potential, carefully reimagined to create the principal suite the original house never had.

The project began with a simple ambition, to transform the generous unused loft space into a new upper floor. The challenge was finding the right location for a new stair connection without compromising the existing arrangement.

Once resolved, this became the catalyst for a wider remodelling of the home.

Internally, the design evolved to improve the way the house functions, creating a new principal suite within the loft, a new ensuite arrangement, a more generous utility space, and a better connection between the kitchen, family and living spaces.

Externally, the approach remained deliberately restrained. A single-storey side extension creates a dedicated dining area, while the existing material palette is retained to ensure the alterations feel like a natural continuation of the original home.

Following planning approval, technical design is now complete and the project is currently progressing on site.

More updates to follow.

02 | Front CGI

A refined evolution

The proposal retains the character of the existing home, introducing carefully considered changes that feel integrated rather than added.

03 | Side extension CGI

Improving everyday living

A new single-storey extension creates a dedicated dining space and strengthens the connection between kitchen, family and living areas.

04 | Side extension CGI

Improving everyday living

A new single-storey extension creates a dedicated dining space and strengthens the connection between kitchen, family and living areas.

05 | Existing home

The starting point

A recently built home with strong foundations, but with opportunities to improve how the spaces worked for modern family life.

06 | Existing condition

Unlocking hidden potential

The generous unused loft space provided the opportunity to create a new principal suite within the existing roof volume.

07 | Proposed elevation

A considered external response

The design evolved

20/08/2026

Henfield | Staples Barn

01 | CGI

Not every project needs to begin again.

Recently submitted and now validated for planning, this proposal explores how a small number of considered interventions can give an existing home a quieter, more resolved identity.

The existing tile-hung frontage is replaced with a clean rendered finish, simplifying the elevation while retaining the established form and character of the house. The flat roof over the existing front bay is replaced with a pitched roof, while a new pitched entrance porch creates a stronger sense of arrival. A new front door and adjacent window complete the composition, remaining sympathetic to the proportions of the existing property.

The porch extends beyond what could be achieved under permitted development, bringing the proposals together as part of the current planning application.

Rather than wholesale redevelopment, the approach is deliberately restrained, working with the existing building and concentrating intervention where it can make the greatest difference.

A relatively simple architectural exercise, but a good example of how proportion, material and a clearly defined entrance can change the way an existing home is read.

Now validated and awaiting determination.

02 | Existing

03 | Proposed Elevation

17/08/2026

01 | Wargrave

From first sketches to construction, Victoria Road has been a particularly rewarding project to develop.

The site was previously occupied by a derelict three-bedroom house, vacant for more than a decade. The brief for its replacement was clear: a single-storey, three-bedroom home with generous ceiling heights, extensive glazing and a strong connection to the garden.

The long, narrow plot and changing levels became fundamental to the design. Falling considerably away from the road, the house sits low within the landscape, with its roofline roughly in line with the street above. A green roof helps the building sit quietly within its setting, while two established trees have been retained, with the design developed around them.

A key feature is the long internal axis from the 1.4m-wide pivot entrance door to the principal bedroom at the rear. When opened up, it creates an uninterrupted view through the house and full-height glazing to the garden beyond. Concealed doors allow sections of the corridor to be closed when required, balancing openness, privacy and everyday use.

The restrained material palette combines Vandersanden Morvan black brick, Vastern Timber Brimstone Poplar cladding, aluminium detailing and a planted roof externally, with polished concrete, neutral walls and warm timber acoustic panelling internally.

Atelier T&B has developed the architectural design from concept and planning through technical design and construction, and will remain involved through to completion, including assisting with the interiors.

With the roof now taking shape, the proportions, views and relationships developed on the drawings are becoming tangible.

The images follow the house from arrival, through the living spaces and central study, to the principal suite and garden beyond. More from Wargrave to follow as construction progresses.

02 | Arrival

The principal approach and entrance, where dark brick and vertical timber cladding frame the arrival into the house.

03 | Living

The front of the house, containing the kitchen, dining and drawing spaces, with full

14/08/2026

Gomshall | On site

Foundation works progressing at the four-house development in Gomshall, Surrey, by Runnymede Homes.

A piled foundation solution is being used in response to the ground conditions across the site. Concrete blinding has been laid to provide a clean, stable working platform for the piling operations, with the piles now installed across the building footprints.

With piling complete, the next phase is underway, excavating and installing the below-ground foul and surface water drainage serving the four plots. Surface water will ultimately be managed through the site’s SuDS strategy.

Once the below-ground drainage is complete, works can progress to the reinforced piled raft foundation system, transferring loads from the new structures through the piles to suitable bearing strata below.

The development will provide four new detached, four-bedroom homes within an attractive, wooded setting in Gomshall. Atelier T&B has been involved in the design of the scheme from planning stage and continues to develop the architectural and technical design through construction.

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12/08/2026

Material Palette | Victoria Road

Cool underfoot, neutral around you, warm above.

For Victoria Road, we have been developing the material palette around a simple idea, balancing temperature, texture and atmosphere.

The floor is the cool anchor, a Steel Grey polished concrete by Woody’s Concrete Company. Calm, robust and quietly reflective, it gives the space a grounded base.

The walls are being considered in Nada by COAT, a soft taupe white that sits between clean and warm. The intention is to keep the walls neutral, allowing natural light, shadow and the surrounding materials to do more of the work.

Above, the ceiling introduces warmth and rhythm through Naturewall’s Honey Oak Grand Slat acoustic panels. The timber tone softens the space overhead, while the acoustic backing brings a functional layer to the finish.

Externally, the palette becomes more architectural: Vandersanden Morvan black brick for depth and weight, Vastern Timber Brimstone Poplar cladding for warmth and grain, aluminium fascia for a crisp edge, and a green roof to soften the overall composition.

None of these materials are being chosen in isolation. The interest is in how they work together, cool floor, neutral walls, warm ceiling, with lighting and furnishings doing the final work of bringing atmosphere to the home.

Architecture is often drawn in plans and elevations, but it is experienced through tone, texture, shadow and touch.

Cool concrete, dark brick, warm timber.

Testing neutral wall tones in natural light.

The specification behind the atmosphere.

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