Ideas Factory/ the foundry

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Plan of the floor in the roof, north up, finished in phase 3, with dashed lines marking 1.5 m headroom. Bedroom 2, 21.1 m², fills the west of wing 1 with a window in the west gable. East of it, a low eaves store along the north wall, a corridor from the head of the stair west to bedroom 2, the stairwell, the bathroom, 5.8 m², with its roof window marked in its north-west corner, where the main wing's slope runs over it just west of the valley, and the landing with a window in the east wall. Bedroom 3, 15.8 m², fills wing 2 with a window in the south gable.

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In the roof

Phase 3: two bedrooms and the bathroom, inside the 45° roof, all indoor work.

The card

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In the roof

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The notes

rendered

Finished in phase 3, all of it indoor work at whatever pace the money allows. The upper floor is at 3.1 m. Knee walls are 1.0 m and the roof is 45°, so the headroom passes 1.5 m about 0.5 m in from each knee wall. On the plan, dashed lines mark the 1.5 m line.

Room Area
Bedroom 2 21.1 m²
Bedroom 3 15.8 m²
Bathroom 5.8 m²

The stair rises east and arrives at its head by the east wall. From there the landing leads south, to the bathroom and to bedroom 3, which fills wing 2 and is lit by the south gable window. A corridor leads west, past the stairwell behind a balustrade, to bedroom 2, which fills the west of the main wing and is lit by the west gable window. The corridor is 0.9 m wide, with about 1.95 m of headroom at its low side, rising to 2.5 m.

The eaves store is the low strip along the north wall, to 1.2 m in, behind a small hatch off the corridor. Storage is also built into the low knee walls.

The bathroom has no flat ceiling. It is open to the roof, so the only roof window in the house, high on the main wing's slope just west of the valley, lights it from above the end of the bath.

This plan is redrawn from the concept book's in two places. The book's plan has no way into bedroom 2, so the corridor is added and the eaves store narrowed. The roof window has moved into the bathroom's north-west corner, the one place that is both over the bath and on the slope the renders show it in.

The plates

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Plan of the floor in the roof, north up, finished in phase 3, with dashed lines marking 1.5 m headroom. Bedroom 2, 21.1 m², fills the west of wing 1 with a window in the west gable. East of it, a low eaves store along the north wall, a corridor from the head of the stair west to bedroom 2, the stairwell, the bathroom, 5.8 m², with its roof window marked in its north-west corner, where the main wing's slope runs over it just west of the valley, and the landing with a window in the east wall. Bedroom 3, 15.8 m², fills wing 2 with a window in the south gable.
01 · Plan of the floor in the roof
A bedroom in the roof in early morning sun, from the doorway. The ceiling slopes down steeply on both sides to low knee walls, with a flat band at the top, all lined in white tongue-and-groove boards. In the gable wall ahead, a plain window in an anthracite frame looks out over misty fields and gritstone edges. A black iron bed with white linen and a grey checked blanket, a wooden chair as a bedside table, a sheepskin and a woven rug on the pine floor, a basket, and low built-in cupboard doors along the knee walls.
02 · A bedroom in the roof in early morning sun
The bathroom in the roof on a soft grey morning, from the doorway. The ceiling is open to the roof, in white tongue-and-groove boards, with a crease where two slopes meet. A plain white bath runs along the right-hand wall under a roof window set high in the slope with a deep white reveal, showing grey sky and green hills. White square tiles to half height and a trailing plant on the bath. On the left, a birch plywood vanity with a white basin, a round timber mirror, a black wall light and a wooden towel ladder with linen towels, over a grey painted floor and a cotton mat.
03 · The bathroom in the roof on a soft grey morning