4 Beansheaf Terrace, Wallingford, Oxfordshire
No 4 is one of six houses in a terrace situated down a private back lane in Wallingford. Numbers 1 to 4 are older, datable to the mid C18, and are listed Grade II.
The terrace faces south down long front gardens, which enjoy a pleasant aspect towards the woods planted along the line of the Saxon embankments. At the rear, however, the houses have paved yards hemmed in by a tall boundary wall.
My clients wished to enlarge the ground floor accommodation into the yard with a new kitchen / dining area.
My approach is to place the bulk of the extension away from the listed building, and minimise the link to it. This is done by adopting a sedum planted flat roof concealing as little of the existing rear elevation as possible, which will have its unsightly cement render removed to expose the underlying timber framing.
Although unobtrusive and ‘light touch’ in its juxtaposition to the historic fabric, this approach is unconventional and is currently being appealed against a refusal of planning permission.
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