Residential
Blackbird House
East Sussex
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This new family house in East Sussex was granted Planning in 2018 and completed in 2020.
Built on a constrained site in a village location, the house provides ‘Passivhaus’ levels of energy consumption with high levels of insulation and a heat recovery ventilation system. Using SIP panel construction on standard foundations the project was completed in nine months.
Clad in black zinc cladding and natural larch timber the house is a contemporary interpretation of the traditional pitched roof building form
Gatehouse Cottages
East Sussex
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This is a new extension to a former oast and cottage to provide new living and kitchen areas on the ground floor with a new principal bedroom and bathroom on the first floor.
The new extension gives a new outlook to the house with spectacular views to the north. Clad in oxidizing ‘corten’ steel cladding, the appearance of the traditional hipped roof is given a contemporary twist and contrasts with the tile cladding on the original building.
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Due for completion Summer 2023
Farmhouse
Half Moon Lane
Kent
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Planning Permission and Listed Building Consent has recently been granted for this contemporary extension to the grade II Farmhouse. The extension provides a new kitchen, living room and bedrooms for the house with a glazed link to the original Farmhouse. James worked closely with planning consultants and the local planning officers to provide an acceptable, high-quality design solution.