A Red-Brick Bungalow in Prestwich Becomes a Four-Bedroom Family Home
A two-bedroom bungalow in Prestwich, a town near Manchester in north-west England, has been rebuilt as a four-bedroom family home with two bathrooms. The design practice Loader Monteith carried out the work, Dezeen reported on 23 October 2026.
The house started out at 69 square metres, roughly 740 square feet. The team reorganised the interior and then added two things: a rear brick extension and a new upper floor. The upper floor sits beneath a dormer roof, a section that juts out from a sloping roof to make room for headroom and windows.
The project was designed for clients Matt and Angie Maurer. According to Dezeen, the couple carried out much of the construction themselves.
The new front of the house pairs a green-toned copper entryway with the original red-brick walls and clay roof tiles. Copper is a metal that weathers to a greenish colour over time, and here it gives the entrance a different look from the brick around it.
At the back, the new extension is an angular red-brick structure. Copper detailing frames it, and its roof is topped with sedum, a kind of low, hardy plant that grows across a flat or gently sloping roof.
Loader Monteith calls the project Deyne Avenue. On its website, the practice describes the job as a full house refurbishment and extension.
The Maurers' home is one of a growing number of older houses in the UK that are reworked rather than replaced. Each change has a cost in time, materials and labour, and in this case much of that labour was done by the owners. No further figures for the project have been published.
