To the rescue: transforming an old ambulance station in Sussex

This tired municipal building in Rye has been transformed into a lovely home

In the heart of the medieval town of Rye in East Sussex, a former St John ambulance station has been transformed by Marta Nowicka. “As an interior architect, my passion is to purchase commercial buildings and change them to residential,” she says.

Marta was inspired by the rambling, ancient town in which the building sits. “Rye is full of historical narratives and spatial idiosyncrasies, which I wanted to work with, keeping indigenous flavours like the proportions of the bedrooms, the beams, bricks, peg tiles and the window alignments, with a new staircase creating a dialogue between the old and the new.”

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