High drone view from the south-west in low golden evening light, looking up a Dales valley side to limestone scars. The house is a long low rectangle of grass roof on a silver-grey limestone base, its south-west front a dark line of glazing, with a small planted courtyard sunk into the middle of the roof and a drystone field wall running down the slope to a square stone pier on the roof with smoke rising from it. A sunken ha-ha curves round below the house. Above it are the stone field barn by the track down from the lane, a walled kitchen garden with a long greenhouse, an orchard, a small wind turbine, and rows of solar panels at the right edge, all in a patchwork of drystone-walled pasture. Off brief: the house stands as a stone-walled box on the slope, with stone end walls showing on both sides, rather than a roof that carries straight back into the hillside. The front reads as one continuous strip of glass almost flush with the stone, with no deep covered porch, no piers and no steel screens.

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Decisions log

Every decision the Rev C layout is built on, and what changed from Rev B.

The card

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Decisions log

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The notes

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decisions

Topic	Decision
Threats	Extreme weather, civil breakdown and crime, weighted equally
Site	Rural Yorkshire Dales, 5 to 15 acres, south-west slope, Flood Zone 1
Budget	Over £2.5m build. The current order of cost is much higher, £9.7m to £13.9m before fees and contingency
Household	5 to 6 people, three generations, all fully mobile now, with a lift built in
Look	Quiet modern rural, single storey, earth-sheltered, silver-grey Dales limestone
Anchor	Storm watching through a deep south-west wall with a masonry stove
Bedrooms	Main suite, two parent suites each with its own lounge, child room, flexible room, guest suite, all ensuite
Living	Sitting and dining at the glass, kitchen behind, closable snug
Offices	One daylit upstairs, one with comms below
Courtyard	Ground-level kitchen courtyard enclosed by the house
Bunker	Whole lower floor. Forced entry, fire, ballistic, blast and fallout. Sealed for two weeks
Bunker rooms	All stay below: bunkroom, family room, cinema, gym, sauna and plunge, cellars, aquaponics
Ground floor security	Ballistic and break-in resistant for 1 to 3 hours
Ways in	Main door with a secure inner door, service door, porch doors behind steel screens
Ways down	Hidden stair and lift, blast door, airlock, decon. A tunnel to a hatch in the barn inspection pit
Perimeter	Drystone wall and ditch outside, a ha-ha loop round the house and barn, one disguised field gate with bollards
Energy	Off grid by default with instant islanding. Solar, small wind, battery, generator in the barn
Heat and water	Ground source heat pump plus masonry stove. Borehole plus rainwater
Food	Walled garden, greenhouse, orchard, trout aquaponics, shared growing effort, staples stored
Interiors	Lime plaster, oak, limestone flags, upstairs and down. A mix of old and simple modern furniture

what changed in Rev C

The outer boundary is now drystone walls with a ditch inside, to match the Dales.
The stove flue rises inside a drystone field wall that runs across the roof, ending in a square stone pier. The same wall hides the bunker's air intake and exhaust shafts.
The bunker door order was corrected. The blast door now faces the stair, then the airlock and decontamination, then a gas-tight door into the clean side. The tunnel follows the same order.
The lift lands in the stair core, outside the blast door, not inside the airlock.
New in Rev C: the bunker entry detail, the two-week systems sizing, this decisions log and the full render prompt pack, including two drone views.

corrected from the source

The Rev C sheet still carried two lines from Rev B, and both are corrected on these pages:

Ways in said the stair and lift land in the airlock. They land in the stair core, outside the blast door, as the Rev C change list and the entry detail have it.
The budget warning opened "Rev B goes up again". It now reads Rev C.