Three Arts and Crafts Homes

The brief was to create three new, generous family homes on a steeply sloping plot for a local developer. The design is inspired by the Arts and Crafts Style, enhanced by the detailing of solid timber doors, timber windows with decorative mullions, expressed chimney stacks etc. A traditional pitched roof with gables and hipped ends was an important part of the composition.

Plan houses are a ‘t’ shape to provide triple or dual aspects to most rooms and to flood the internal spaces with as much light as possible. Each house has a split-level arrangement, in response to the contours of the existing site and to reduce the requirement for extensive excavation.