Tuckpointed Victorian, Camberwell

Project At A Glance

Location: Camberwell, Victoria

Architect: Pleysier Perkins

Interior Designer: Pleysier Perkins

Project Type: Heritage Architectural Extension and Renovation

Key Features: Tuckpointed Victorian façade, central courtyard, high-level glazed pop-up, rear living domain, courtyard glazing, timber-clad studio, laneway garage, landscape integration

Completed: 2022

Project Description Tuckpointed Victorian retains a finely detailed street façade in Camberwell while reworking the plan around a planted courtyard and a new rear living domain. The original rooms remain legible as a sequence of enclosed spaces, with the extension held behind and scaled to keep the heritage form dominant from the street. Inserted at the centre, the courtyard draws daylight and sky into the middle of the house, improving privacy and establishing a clear hinge between old and new.

Within the plan, the kitchen is set beneath a high-level glazed pop-up that introduces overhead light without depending on boundary windows. Living and dining areas open to both courtyard and garden, using glazing to frame planting and control outlook rather than dissolve enclosure. Integrated joinery consolidates storage and services so circulation stays direct, and the retained front rooms read with minimal interruption.

The courtyard becomes the organising device for the whole site, extending to a timber-clad studio and a garage accessed from the rear laneway. Built by TCON in collaboration with Pleysier Perkins for architecture and interiors, with landscape design by Eckersley Garden Architecture, the works required careful structural openings within retained fabric and disciplined waterproofing and drainage at courtyard thresholds. The outcome is composed and settled, with light and landscape guiding daily movement.