The Old Post Office, Berrick Salome, Oxfordshire
This project addresses the challenge of extending a listed 16th century thatched house within a Conservation Area.
I felt strongly that the present size of the thatched house, although small, should not be enlarged: but an opportunity existed to enhance it by removing a delapidated lean-to and nearby garden shed. Further away is another more recent building, and any extension had to fit in appropriately with that, too.
The new structure stands away from the old house and keeps a low profile between both buildings. On the south side it is predominantly glazed; whilst on the north side it reads as a garden wall.
It will have a ‘green’ roof of sedum plants, and a ground source heating system which in due course will serve other areas of the house
