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Well Street
This project is the refurbishment
and extension at ground floor level
of a Grade II listed cottage within
a conservation area in Bury St
Edmunds. The extension is resolutely
contemporary, using a simple palette
of oak, brick and frameless glazing in
an elegant pitched roof arrangement
which is sympathetic to the original
house. The Bury Society commented
that the project “shows how a well-
designed contemporary extension can
complement an existing older building”. refurbished. To the rear of the plan a
new 8-metre long pitched roof single
storey extension creates an open plan
kitchen/diner with direct access and
views onto the garden. The room is
flooded with natural light by 4 roof
lights and incorporates an oak floor,
which gives visual clarity to accentuate
the form of the extension. The shift in
levels between the interior floor level
and the garden has been harnessed
to create an unusual and intimate
relationship with the garden.
The ground floor of the house was
extensively re-planned, with the
rooms at the front of the house lightly A trapezoidal door made of kiln dried
tongue and groove English oak leads
to a shallow flight of three brick steps
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up to garden level. The seat-height cill
of the large, frameless, corner-glazed
window is level with the ground outside,
creating a seamless visual continuity
between inside and out. As with the
main living space, which employs a
limited palette of materials (natural
slate, lots of lead, english oak, lime
render, soft red bricks), the kitchen
and bathrooms demonstrate how a
high quality finish can be achieved
with a limited budget through the
careful assembly of low cost utilitarian
materials (white tiles, cork floor, and
white formica faced ply).