Wood Vale I

The clients fell in love with the garden and bought the house to go with it. It was hard not to; at over 200 feet long with a south facing aspect it was magical. The problem was that the house was perched on the side of a hill and sat a whole floor level above the garden, it wasn’t connected physically or visually.  

The physical solution was to ‘dig-out’ and extend outwards below the existing cellar and create a new reading room level with the garden. The visual solution was to extend and remodel the ground floor creating a flexible open plan space with views of the garden immediately apparent on entry.  A raised terrace was created outside the dining space with separate stair access to the garden. The property was also extended upwards creating a master bedroom suite in the attic which exploited the panoramic views with a large picture window.