Waffle House

Alongside a Grade II listed Mill, this restaurant extension includes a new 200 seat dining facility and spatial planning of the existing buildings to enhance the current set up and provisions. A solution was needed to improve the day to day running of the restaurant whilst working with the varying internal levels. AHG’s design proposal looked to create a practical circulation route between the existing spaces and a new dining facility, whilst preserving and emphasising the existing architectural features of the mill.

The solution came through the creation of a glazed colonnade to the front façade of the buildings, which has minimal impact on the existing fabric of the mill, whilst providing the much-needed level connection between the existing buildings and new dining facility. Moving the kitchen out of the miller’s cottage and into the new structure provided the opportunity to use the space for intimate dining. The new building succeeds in emulating the existing features of the brick and timber listed buildings through its materiality and form whilst remaining clearly distinct as a contemporary addition.