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This single room building forms the fourth side to a courtyard at the edge of a listed manor house complex. The height was kept low to minimise the impact of the new building on the open landscape beyond; the building nestles into the ground beside a mature fig tree and behind an existing flint garden wall.
The small, private garden created between the new room and the existing wall allows sunlight to penetrate into what would have otherwise been a north-facing building. The contemporary style of the building makes use of a muted palette of materials including timber, zinc, galvanized steel and flint in order to be sensitive to its historic surroundings.
