Garden Gable House
Garden Gable House
A two storey rear extension to an attractive cottage home in the North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, West Berkshire. The project took inspiration from the black timber clad ancillary buildings common in the area. The brief was to introduce a master bedroom suite and generous new kitchen-dining space connected to the garden.
The house backed onto an existing concrete block retaining wall, and the extension was built up against this with a double height space above the dining area. Views up the hills and into the trees, and plenty of daylight are brought down into the living area by a large west facing window.
The building is clad in narrow charred larch vertical cladding boards with an unventilated anthra zinc roof. Inside the steel structure is exposed and becomes a prominent feature, infilled with warm douglas fir timber structure and deck.
Completed 2025.
Photography by Ellen Christina Hancock
Structural Engineering by Multilateral
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