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Connecting a Grade 2 listed cottage to its landscape

Brickhouse

An overtly contemporary extension to a delightful Grade II listed Kent cottage providing much needed connection to its beautifully landscape gardens

Extending a listed cottage

Contemporary extension to a Grade 2 listed cottage in the AONB

This delightful Grade 2 listed cottage, sat within immaculately landscaped gardens, provided only small introspective rooms with no connection to outdoor recreational space.

Our proposals consisted of two distinct elements;
A Contemporary element which linked to the landscaped gardens and A vernacular rear courtyard element

The contemporary element provides a single large contemporary designed extension which opened up to the existing swimming pool & contemporary planted gardens.

Floor Plan

Entrance

Upon arrival to the house along the driveway, the principal elevation of the existing house is seen as well as the side elevation. A contemporary styled swimming pool & landscaping on the side of the house current have very little direct connectivity to the existing house. Our proposals provide a discrete single storey flat roofed space which can better connect the internal living spaces with the recreational spaces & functions outside.


The material palette chosen for this element of the proposals is dark in tone in order to make the new element visually recede into the boundary backdrop of dense trees when viewed upon arrival. This helps to retain the integrity of form of the existing house which is evident upon arrival.

Upon arrival to the house along the driveway, the principal elevation of the existing house is seen as well as the side elevation. A contemporary styled swimming pool & landscaping on the side of the house current have very little direct connectivity to the existing house. Our proposals provide a discrete single storey flat roofed space which can better connect the internal living spaces with the recreational spaces & functions outside.


The material palette chosen for this element of the proposals is dark in tone in order to make the new element visually recede into the boundary backdrop of dense trees when viewed upon arrival. This helps to retain the integrity of form of the existing house which is evident upon arrival.

The rear courtyard

The rear of the listed cottage consisted of a dominantly clay peg tile roofscape with low eaves and numerous rooflights providing daylight into the cottage. Within the context of this subservient architecture, we extended this theme to create an informal utility courtyard with a new complimentary vernacular extension.

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Tunbridge Wells B.C. approved the scheme in July 2021, praising the design’s sensitive response to context and the listed cottage despite exceeding normal policy limits for extensions to existing dwellings.

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