Cheviots Farmhouse
A comprehensive refurbishment of an existing Victorian farmhouse in the foothills of the Cheviots, with day room extension and new garden building.
The new day room looks to capture the panoramic views of the surrounding landscape of the rolling Cheviot Hills, and create new sheltered courtyards to sit outside between the extension and existing building.
A new garden building is proposed, incorporating potting shed, outside store and double garage, which looks out on to the house’s pastoral garden and accessed from the house’s existing driveway, with overhanging eaves for shelter on inclement days.
The existing Victorian house is comprehensively upgraded, with existing period doors, shutters and cornices stripped back and redecorated, and sympathetic minor alterations made to suit the client’s modern way of living.
The entire project is designed with sustainability in mind, with integrated solar panels on the garden building roof, a new ground source heat pump providing heating and hot water, new insulated hempcrete ground bearing floors, and natural materials used throughout.
Sectors: Residential, Conservation