# William Gaitskell House, Paradise Street. Gold aluminium rainscreen, fins and copings. Rotherhithe, London SE16. > Design, fabrication and installation of gold aluminium rainscreen for Hollybrook on new houses beside a listed 1814 police station, Rotherhithe. > HTML version: https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/projects/william-gaitskell-house-paradise-street/ The team behind Dmitro Development designed, fabricated and installed the gold aluminium rainscreen on the two new houses and external stair of this Rotherhithe conversion. ![Looking up the gold aluminium rainscreen fins, reveals and soffit beside the old brick wall at William Gaitskell House, Rotherhithe](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/william-gaitskell-house-paradise-street/william-gaitskell-house-paradise-street-gold-aluminium-rainscreen-fins-reveals-soffit-fallback.jpg) 01 · Looking up the Carriage House: gold reveals, fins and soffit beside the old station. The four-storey Carriage House on Cathay Street, photographed from its doorstep. Powder-coated aluminium in Tiger Drylac Regency Gold 2 lines the deep reveals of the full-height windows, the fins along the parapet and the soffit over the entrance, beside the stock brick of the Grade II listed former police station. The team behind Dmitro Development designed, fabricated and installed this rainscreen for Hollybrook in 2016 and 2017. ## At a glance - **Package**: Design, fabrication and installation of powder-coated aluminium rainscreen - **Structures**: Carriage House, Courtyard House and External Staircase - **Finish**: Tiger Drylac Regency Gold 2 - **Main contractor**: Hollybrook - **On site**: 2016 to 2017 [Part of: Cladding and facade packages](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/facade-cladding/) ## 02 · The Carriage House: gold frames and dark brick on Cathay Street. ![Tall new house clad in gold aluminium frames and dark brick, adjoining the yellow-brick listed police station on a narrow street](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/william-gaitskell-house-paradise-street/william-gaitskell-house-paradise-street-tall-new-clad-gold-aluminium-frames-fallback.jpg) The Carriage House on Cathay Street, one of two new houses built beside William Gaitskell House. Gold aluminium frames its full-height windows and runs as fins along the parapet, while dark brick fills the rest of the elevation. The listed former police station, with its sash and arched windows, stands directly to the left. ## 03 · Street level: a gold door surround and the gated passage. ![Gold aluminium-clad front door and entry panel beside a grey gate into a passage, under dark brick and tall windows](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/william-gaitskell-house-paradise-street/william-gaitskell-house-paradise-street-gold-aluminium-clad-front-door-entry-fallback.jpg) The ground floor of the Carriage House, where the gold aluminium rainscreen wraps the front door, the entry panel and the column beside a gated passage into the site. The window reveals above and the dark brick of the upper floors meet at a gold head trim. ## 04 · Deep gold reveals hold the full-height window pair. A gold cover runs up the mullion. ![Looking straight up a pair of tall windows in deep gold aluminium reveals, between yellow stock brick and dark brick](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/william-gaitskell-house-paradise-street/william-gaitskell-house-paradise-street-straight-pair-tall-windows-deep-gold-fallback.jpg) The Carriage House window pair from the pavement: a gold aluminium cover runs up the central mullion between the two panes, set inside deep reveals with the old station's brick on one side and the new dark brick on the other. The site ## A Regency police station, now nine homes. William Gaitskell House was built on Paradise Street in 1814 and served as a police station from 1838 before later use as offices. It is listed Grade II and sits in the Edward III’s Rotherhithe Conservation Area. Hollybrook converted it into seven apartments and built two houses behind it, the two-storey Courtyard House and the four-storey Carriage House on Cathay Street, with a three-storey external stair to the rear. Burwell Deakins Architects designed the scheme, setting the new work in gold aluminium against the restored brick of the old station. F+A+T engineered the facades across the scheme, including the steel supports and aluminium brackets that tie the new structures to the glazing and the listed fabric. ## What the team designed, made and fixed - Rivet-fixed rainscreen panels - Architectural fins - Copings and cappings - Flashings and trims - Window heads and reveals ![Close upward view of gold aluminium panels with rows of rivets along each joint](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/william-gaitskell-house-paradise-street/william-gaitskell-house-paradise-street-upward-gold-aluminium-panels-rows-rivets-fallback.jpg) 05 · Narrow open joints between the vertical panels. Close view of the Courtyard House cladding: narrow vertical gold aluminium panels, each fixed along both edges to the rail behind, with narrow open joints between them. ## 06 · The Courtyard House: a gold upper floor above the old boundary wall. ![A gold aluminium-clad upper storey on an old brick wall, with a tall gold stair frame against a yellow-brick building to the left](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/william-gaitskell-house-paradise-street/william-gaitskell-house-paradise-street-gold-aluminium-clad-upper-storey-fallback.jpg) Closed along its length, it opens at one end into a terrace framed in gold. The two-storey Courtyard House seen from outside the site. Its upper floor is a box of gold aluminium rainscreen sitting on the old brick boundary wall, closed along its length and opening into a framed terrace at one end. The External Staircase rises against the rear of the listed station to the left. ## 07 · The long side: vertical panels ending in an open frame. ![Long gold aluminium-clad upper storey with narrow vertical panels and an open frame at the left end, above a brick wall](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/william-gaitskell-house-paradise-street/william-gaitskell-house-paradise-street-long-gold-aluminium-clad-upper-storey-fallback.jpg) The long elevation of the Courtyard House's upper floor: narrow vertical aluminium panels run its full length above the brick, ending in an open gold frame with a fin screen around the terrace. ## 08 · The closed end: four broad panels over the brick coping. ![End wall of a gold aluminium-clad building with four broad panels, over a red and grey brick wall, trees to the right](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/william-gaitskell-house-paradise-street/william-gaitskell-house-paradise-street-end-wall-gold-aluminium-clad-building-fallback.jpg) The end wall of the Courtyard House, clad in four broad gold panels that finish on a trim above the old brick wall's coping, with the long side's narrower panels running away to the left. ## The terrace frame and its fins At the open end of the Courtyard House, the rainscreen folds inward to line a deep frame around the terrace. Aluminium fins close one side of the opening and a glass balustrade sits across the front. ![Upward view of a gold aluminium frame corner with deep returns and vertical fins inside, over brickwork](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/william-gaitskell-house-paradise-street/william-gaitskell-house-paradise-street-upward-gold-aluminium-frame-corner-deep-fallback.jpg) 09 · The open frame from below, deep returns around a fin screen. Looking up at the corner of the Courtyard House's terrace frame: the gold head and returns are deep enough to read as solid from below, with a screen of aluminium fins set back inside. ![Vertical gold aluminium fins across a tall opening in gold cladding, windows behind, brick wall below](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/william-gaitskell-house-paradise-street/william-gaitskell-house-paradise-street-vertical-gold-aluminium-fins-tall-opening-fallback.jpg) 10 · Vertical fins across the opening, windows behind. A tall opening in the Courtyard House's gold cladding, screened by vertical aluminium fins, with the terrace windows visible behind and the brick wall below. ![Angled view of a deep gold aluminium reveal with fins set behind, above a brick wall under a grey sky](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/william-gaitskell-house-paradise-street/william-gaitskell-house-paradise-street-angled-deep-gold-aluminium-reveal-fins-fallback.jpg) 11 · The frame's reveal from the side, fins set back behind it. The same terrace opening from an angle, showing how far the gold reveal returns into the frame and how the fins stand back from the face of the cladding. ![Gold aluminium frame over a glass balustrade, seen steeply from the base of an old brick wall](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/william-gaitskell-house-paradise-street/william-gaitskell-house-paradise-street-gold-aluminium-frame-glass-balustrade-fallback.jpg) 12 · From the foot of the wall, the frame's head against the sky. The Courtyard House terrace seen from the foot of the boundary wall: the gold frame's head and posts stand over a frameless glass balustrade, with the long clad side running away to the right. ## 13 · Glazed doors behind the terrace's glass balustrade. ![A gold aluminium frame around a terrace with a glass balustrade, glazed doors and vertical fins](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/william-gaitskell-house-paradise-street/william-gaitskell-house-paradise-street-gold-aluminium-frame-terrace-glass-balustrade-fallback.jpg) The Courtyard House terrace framed in gold aluminium: a lined head and cill, a glass balustrade in front of the doors, and aluminium fins closing one side of the opening. Behind the gold ## Three layers behind every panel. At the Courtyard House, the package also included a short light-steel-frame wall. - Panels: Powder-coated aluminium - Carrier: Helping-hand brackets and rails - Insulation: Kingspan Kooltherm K15 - Membrane: DuPont Tyvek HouseWrap ## Trims, reveals and fins up close A continuous trim closes the foot of the cladding above the brick. On the Carriage House, the same gold lines the window reveals and runs as fins along the parapet. ![Gold vertical aluminium panels ending on a horizontal trim above red and dark brick](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/william-gaitskell-house-paradise-street/william-gaitskell-house-paradise-street-gold-vertical-aluminium-panels-ending-horizontal-fallback.jpg) 14 · The base trim, where the panels finish above the brick. The foot of the Courtyard House cladding: vertical gold panels close onto a continuous aluminium trim that sits just above the brick coping of the wall below. ![Gold aluminium panels running up to the edge of a deep frame head at the top left](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/william-gaitskell-house-paradise-street/william-gaitskell-house-paradise-street-gold-aluminium-panels-running-edge-deep-fallback.jpg) 15 · The panel field, its joints running straight to the top edge. The long side of the Courtyard House where its vertical panels meet the head of the terrace frame, the trim at the base and the frame's edge closing the panel run. ![Upward view of tall windows framed in gold aluminium reveals, a lit gold soffit below and old yellow brick to the left](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/william-gaitskell-house-paradise-street/william-gaitskell-house-paradise-street-upward-tall-windows-framed-gold-aluminium-fallback.jpg) 16 · Reveals around the window pair, meeting the soffit over the entrance. Looking up from the Carriage House entrance: the gold reveals of the window pair step down onto a head trim and the soffit above the door, lit from below, with the old station's sash windows to the left and the dark brick of the new house to the right. ![Gold aluminium fins along a parapet above tall windows, between old yellow brick and new dark brick](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/william-gaitskell-house-paradise-street/william-gaitskell-house-paradise-street-gold-aluminium-fins-parapet-tall-windows-fallback.jpg) 17 · Fins along the parapet, above the window heads. The top of the Carriage House: a row of gold aluminium fins along the parapet above the window pair and the dark brick, with the old station's brick to the left. ## 18 · Panel joints running the length of the Courtyard House towards the old station. ![Raking view along gold aluminium panels above a brick wall, towards a yellow-brick building](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/william-gaitskell-house-paradise-street/william-gaitskell-house-paradise-street-raking-gold-aluminium-panels-brick-wall-fallback.jpg) The Courtyard House cladding seen along its length: the vertical joints and rivet lines of the gold panels run in perspective towards the brick flank of the listed former police station. ## 19 · The External Staircase at the end of the passage. Gold-framed from ground to roof. ![Paved passage between a timber gate and dark brick, leading to a tall gold-framed stair against a yellow-brick building](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/william-gaitskell-house-paradise-street/william-gaitskell-house-paradise-street-paved-passage-timber-gate-dark-brick-fallback.jpg) The three-storey External Staircase against the rear of the listed station, framed in gold aluminium with its balustrade visible through the open frame. It stands at the end of the paved passage that runs between the old building and the Courtyard House. ## 20 · The stair frame's open landings, seen over the brick wall. ![Tall gold-framed stair against a yellow-brick building, beside a gold-clad wall, seen over a brick wall](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/william-gaitskell-house-paradise-street/william-gaitskell-house-paradise-street-tall-gold-framed-stair-against-yellow-fallback.jpg) The External Staircase seen from outside the boundary wall, with the Courtyard House's clad side running alongside and the old station's windows above. ## 21 · Broad end panels turning the corner onto the narrow side panels. ![Corner of a gold aluminium-clad building above a brick wall, with a gold stair frame to the left](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/william-gaitskell-house-paradise-street/william-gaitskell-house-paradise-street-corner-gold-aluminium-clad-building-brick-fallback.jpg) The corner of the Courtyard House from outside the wall, its broad end panels and narrow side panels meeting at a single gold edge, with the External Staircase rising behind the wall to the left. ## 22 · The gold fascia over the dark brick ground floor. ![Gold aluminium fascia over a dark brick wall along a paved passage with planting, a gold stair frame in the distance](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/william-gaitskell-house-paradise-street/william-gaitskell-house-paradise-street-gold-aluminium-fascia-dark-brick-wall-fallback.jpg) Inside the boundary wall: the Courtyard House's gold upper floor oversails its dark brick ground floor, finished at the underside with a gold fascia and soffit along the passage. ## 23 · The lined cill and soffit of the terrace frame. ![A deep gold aluminium frame around a terrace with a glass balustrade and doors](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/william-gaitskell-house-paradise-street/william-gaitskell-house-paradise-street-deep-gold-aluminium-frame-terrace-glass-fallback.jpg) The Courtyard House terrace frame in full: the gold aluminium head, cill and returns lined as one piece around the glass balustrade and doors. ## Gold against the old brick Each view here shows the gold meeting older fabric: the station's rear wall, the boundary wall and its piers, and the passage in from the gate. ![Gold clad wall with a downpipe, a gold frame with fins over patterned brickwork, and an old brick building with sash windows](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/william-gaitskell-house-paradise-street/william-gaitskell-house-paradise-street-gold-clad-wall-downpipe-frame-fins-fallback.jpg) 24 · From the courtyard: clad wall, fin-screened frame and the station's rear. Looking up from within the site: the gold clad wall of one new house, a fin-screened frame over hit-and-miss brickwork, and the rear wall and sash windows of the listed station. ![Gold aluminium-clad end wall above an old brick wall, a gold stair frame at the left edge](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/william-gaitskell-house-paradise-street/william-gaitskell-house-paradise-street-gold-aluminium-clad-end-wall-fallback.jpg) 25 · A stepped brick pier where the boundary wall meets the gold box. The Courtyard House's end wall from outside the site, its gold panels sitting on a trim over the old brick wall, with the edge of the External Staircase frame at the far left. ![Full length of a gold aluminium-clad upper storey on a long brick wall, with a terrace frame at the left](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/william-gaitskell-house-paradise-street/william-gaitskell-house-paradise-street-full-length-gold-aluminium-clad-upper-fallback.jpg) 26 · The full length of the Courtyard House above the boundary wall. The Courtyard House's upper floor in one view, from the open terrace frame at the left to the closed end at the right, set on the old brick boundary wall with the listed station behind. ![View from a timber gate along a passage, gold cladding to the right and a gold stair frame ahead against old brick buildings](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/william-gaitskell-house-paradise-street/william-gaitskell-house-paradise-street-timber-gate-passage-gold-cladding-fallback.jpg) 27 · From the gate: the passage, the staircase and the old station behind. The view in from the gate: the Courtyard House's gold upper floor to the right, the External Staircase ahead and the rear of the listed station rising behind it. ## William Gaitskell House, complete on Paradise Street. 23 Paradise Street, Rotherhithe, London SE16 4QD - **Architect**: Burwell Deakins Architects - **Facade engineer**: F+A+T - **Structural engineer**: Barrett Mahony Consulting Engineers ## Related projects - [RACS Redevelopment, Upper Tooting Road. Petrarch rainscreen.](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/projects/racs-upper-tooting-road/) ![The restored RACS Ltd faience frontage on Upper Tooting Road, with the new brick apartment blocks behind it, Tooting](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/racs-upper-tooting-road/racs-upper-tooting-road-restored-faience-frontage-new-brick-apartment-fallback.jpg) Markdown: https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/projects/racs-upper-tooting-road.md - [8 Bleeding Heart Yard, Greville Street. Aluminium cladding and windows. 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