The guest annexe kitchen and lounge on a sunny autumn afternoon. Pale oak floor and kitchen, a limewashed stone wall, pale leather sofa and armchair, a round oak table with rush chairs and a jute rug. Big glazed doors look north down the garden, past birches and the rill, to the main house with its glowing glazed gable and the two-storey wing on the right. Off brief: the house's rear is glazed across both floors with a balcony running the full width, where the brief has a 5.0 × 1.8 m balcony off the lounge. The annexe ceiling reads flat rather than sloping with the mono-pitch roof.

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The garage and annexe

Three garage bays facing the rear court, with a two-bedroom guest annexe above under a mono-pitch roof.

The card

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The garage and annexe

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The notes

rendered

The block across the south end of the garden holds three garage bays and the garden store, with a self-contained two-bedroom guest annexe above. It has a mono-pitch zinc roof, low to the garden at 6.0 m and high to the rear court at 8.0 m. It was set 6 m further south than first drawn to cut winter shade on the garden.

the garage

Three garage bays with oak doors opening onto the rear turning court, outside the garden. No garage door opens into the garden. The garden store sits at the west end.

Room	Size (m)	Area
Annexe stair and lift	5.0 × 8.0	40 m²
Bay 1	4.0 × 8.0	32 m²
Bay 2	4.0 × 8.0	32 m²
Bay 3	4.0 × 8.0	32 m²
Garden store	4.5 × 8.0	36 m²

the annexe

It runs the full width of the plot, over the garden store. The kitchen and lounge face north down the garden to the house, and two bedrooms each have an en suite and a wardrobe.

It is joined directly to the main house at upper level through the wing, so guests walk to the house under cover. It also has its own ground-level entrance off the drive, with a stair and lift in the corner. Guests or a future carer can come and go without passing through the main house.

Room	Size (m)	Area
Annexe lift	5.0 × 8.0	40 m²
Kitchen and lounge	6.0 × 8.0	48 m²
Guest bedroom 1	6.5 × 4.0	26 m²
En suite and wardrobe	4.0 × 4.0	16 m²
Guest bedroom 2	6.5 × 4.0	26 m²
En suite and wardrobe	4.0 × 4.0	16 m²

Sizes are to the grid lines, before wall thicknesses.

the interior

A lighter cousin of the house: pale oiled oak floors and joinery, limewashed stone and lime plaster, soft pale leather, linen and wool.

The drawings

2 sheets

Upper floor plan, sheet A-02, level +3.3 m, street at the bottom. At the front, flex room 1 (snug), the reading nook and flex room 2 (study), with slot windows and the bronze oriel, under the dashed outline of the 1.5 m roof hood. Behind them, the landing and bathroom, then the stair and lift, the stone court void, the pantry and kitchen, the dining room and the fireside corner. At the back, the lounge with its 5.0 × 1.8 m balcony and the main suite with dressing and en suite, on full-height glazing over the garden below. The wing runs up the left: collections gallery, office, open bridge, hobby room, library, open bridge. Across the back, the annexe lift, the kitchen and lounge facing the garden, and two guest bedrooms each with an en suite and wardrobe. The oriel and hood are drawn at their briefed depths of 0.8 m and 1.5 m. The source drawing drew them several metres deep. — 01 · Upper floor plan

Long section A-A from the street to the rear court, ticks at 1 m. The house has the hall and covered terrace on the ground floor, and the flex rooms, landing, lounge and suite above, under ridge rooflights, with the 1.5 m hood at the street end. The stone court drops through both floors with the basin at the bottom, and the lounge balcony projects over the terrace. The wing is dashed beyond, with gaps at upper level for the open bridges. The garden lies between the house and the block at the back, which has the garage below and the annexe above under a mono-pitch roof, 6.0 m to the garden and 8.0 m to the court. The hood is drawn at its briefed 1.5 m. The source drawing drew it about 6.5 m deep. — 02 · Long section A-A from the street to the rear court

The plates

3 · lift any one out

Whole-site cutaway at a three-quarter angle from the street end, in afternoon light. The main house is in front with the street gable, oak fins and lit oriel still in place, and the back cut open to show the upper floor round the court. The wing on the left is cut open along its length to show a library, a dining room and a workshop, with the gravel drive outside it. The garden fills the middle, and the block at the far end is cut open to show the annexe rooms over three garages. Off brief: the garage doors face the garden across a gravel yard inside the walls rather than a rear court outside it. The far block has a pitched roof with gables, where the brief has a mono-pitch falling to the garden. — 02 · Whole-site cutaway at a three-quarter angle from the street end

3D cutaway of the ground floor and site from above, street at the bottom. The meadow front garden with its stone path leads to the porch in the middle of the gritstone front. Inside: a stair and lift on the left, the open stone court with its water basin in the middle, a gym with a treadmill and bike on the right, a sitting area at the back on the left, and smaller rooms with coats and laundry at the front. The wing runs up the left beside the gravel drive, with small rooms, a long room of sculptures, and timber doors opening onto the drive. The garden has the patio and fire pit, the lawn and rill, raised kitchen-garden beds and birches. Off brief: the three garage doors face north onto a gravel yard inside the garden walls, where the brief turns them to a rear court outside the garden, and no turning court is shown behind the garage. — 03 · 3D cutaway of the ground floor and site from above