We plan to modernise this property in Hans Town by adding a lift, reconfiguring and extending the inside to make more desirable living space, and rebuilding the rear in part to improve ceiling heights. The refurbishment is in one of the newer parts of Hans Town, in west London, named for Chelsea’s great benefactor Hans Sloane, and first developed by Henry Holland in the 1770s. Many of the later, red-brick terraces with their gabled facades and terracotta dressings have been subdivided over the years, leaving convoluted internal layouts. This particular house is typical, becoming a nursing station in the 1960s before being converted into flats in the 1970s.