London-based Fraher Architects have completed a house extension in Islington that is wrapped in larch batons and has a flower-covered roof.

　　Adjoining the rear of the listed house, the timber-clad extension contains a study and a dining room with an oversized glass door to the garden.

　　Benches and fences lining this garden terrace are made of the same timber.

　　A serpent-like lamp illuminates the terrace at night, while matching orange lamps light up the new dining room beneath a rectangular skylight.

　　The roof over the dining room is split into two halves, which pitch in different directions and enable rainwater collection.

　　Modest residential extensions are common in London neighbourhoods – see our earlier stories about a house extended by just a metre and a zinc-clad extension squeezed into a wedge of land.

　　Photography is by Andy Matthews.