Tuesday 19 April 2011

Could this be the one?

Even this idea has a few alterations to make!  We really like the curve but it could be that we have to just make it three sides if the quantity surveyor tells us that it's going to cost a fortune.  The house will face due south to maximise the passive solar gain and view to the Dovecot.


  • Upstairs will comprise of the living area with a open plan kitchen, dining & sitting room.  Additionally on the west side their will be a good size play room (with a large amount of sound insulation) and an upstairs bathroom. 
  • Downstairs will have four double bedrooms, two bathrooms, hallway and utility room.
We've had lots of conversations to make the building as efficient as possible minimising the amount of transitional space hopefully making the 200m sq a good size.

Things to agree: -


  1. The window sizes especially for the curved end.  Considerations are wanting to let lots of light in the house but not feeling we're living in a gold fish bowl especially from when driving up Higher Backway!
  2. Pitch of the roof - lets see what the planner think!
  3. The white render section has two bedrooms but the size of the roof is too large and we want to be able to see the sun setting in the west.
Oh I'm sure there are masses of things Flora can think of but I'm pretty happy with this concept.  I'm itching to be able to know the quantities of materials to then be able to research and haggle.

Drawing showing the full plot.

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