The house from the south-east on a summer evening, from a wildflower meadow below it, with a low sun from the west and rolling green hills and oaks behind. One broad, low curved shell: vertical larch boards weathered honey-silver run up from a coursed gritstone base and over the bend into a standing-seam copper crown, with a band of glass set into the crown over the middle. A long ground floor window band and a shorter upper band, both in deep oak frames, run along the south side above a gritstone plinth, with a lit opening and a small terrace with sofas at its left-hand corner and copper rain chains dropping into stone troughs. The east end is an arch of coursed gritstone with one tall lit window in oak frames. To the right a small stone car barn with a curved copper roof and a band of glass under it is joined to the house by a short glazed link. Off brief: the drawings give the east end one window 2 m wide and 8 m tall behind close-set oak fins; here it is a wider window in plain oak frames with no fins. The car barn's roof is a plain barrel, where the drawings give it the house's saddle in miniature, dipping in the middle and rising to each end, and the link to it is glazed rather than gritstone with narrow oak-framed windows. The glass over the garden reads as a narrow strip, where the drawings have three panels covering a 20 by 10 m opening.

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South, the view side

Two oak-framed ribbons over a gritstone plinth, the larch curve and the copper crown, and the roof dipping to 8.5 m over the garden.

The card

elevations 01 of 04

South, the view side

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The notes

rendered

Sheet 05.

Ribbon 1 runs the full 28 m at ground floor in deep oak frames. Oak mullions every 1.5 m line up with the board rhythm. It sits on a gritstone upstand at window-seat height, 0.45 m.

Ribbon 2 runs about 13 m at main suite level, also oak-framed, from the bed to the bath.

The roof line dips to 8.5 m over the garden and rises gently to about 10.5 m at each end, with only a soft 0.5 m overhang. The roof terrace shows only as a dark slot near the east end.

The gritstone plinth is 3.3 m high here, with the games room set back into it. Four copper rain chains drop from a hidden gutter at the stone line into stone troughs.

The drawings

1 sheet

South elevation, the view side, sheet 05 rev H. The 28 m ground floor window band in deep oak frames with mullions every 1.5 m, on a 0.45 m gritstone upstand; the 13 m upper band at main suite level; the larch sides and the copper crown; the roof line dipping to 8.5 m over the garden and rising to about 10.5 m at each end with a soft 0.5 m overhang; the roof terrace as a dark slot near the east end; and the 3.3 m gritstone plinth with the games room set back into it and four copper rain chains into stone troughs. — 01 · South elevation

The plates

5 · lift any one out

The first take of the south-east view, on a summer evening, from a wildflower meadow with a dry stone wall in the foreground and patchwork fields beyond. The same low curved shell in vertical larch with a copper crown and a strip of glass on top, the ground floor and upper window bands in oak frames over a gritstone plinth, and the east end in coursed gritstone with one tall narrow window behind close-set vertical oak fins. The stone car barn with a curved copper roof sits to the right. This take set the softer ends, the lower copper line and the finned east window that rev H was then drawn to match. Off brief: the car barn's roof is a plain barrel rather than a small saddle, and the glass over the garden reads as a narrow strip rather than a 20 by 10 m opening. — 02 · The first take of the south-east view

The house at blue hour from the meadow to the south. The long ground floor window band and the upper band glow amber in their oak frames, the games room opening glows at the lower left corner, and warm light rises from the garden through the open middle of the shell, with tree tops showing. The east gable is dark gritstone with one tall lit window, and the car barn glows faintly beyond. Off brief: the whole shell is clad in copper, losing the larch sides between the stone and the copper crown. The upper window band tilts down towards the east rather than running level at main suite level. — 03 · The house at blue hour from the meadow to the south

The house from the south-east on a late October afternoon, with low gold sun, oaks turning gold and amber, rust-brown bracken on the hills and mist lying in the valley. The window bands are lit warm, the garden's trees show through the opening in the roof, and the car barn sits to the right on its court. Off brief: the whole shell is clad in copper, losing the larch sides between the stone and the copper crown. The upper window band tilts down towards the east rather than running level. — 04 · The house from the south-east on a late October afternoon

The house from the south-east on a clear January morning after snow, with frost on bare oaks and white hills beyond. Snow lies on the flatter top of the shell with copper showing through, the window bands glow warm, and the glass in the roof is lit from the garden beneath. Off brief: the whole shell is clad in copper, losing the larch sides between the stone and the copper crown. The upper window band tilts down towards the east rather than running level. — 05 · The house from the south-east on a clear January morning after snow