The cinema in the evening, from behind the back row. Eight deep cognac leather recliners in two rows with walnut side tables, on charcoal carpet with warm step lights along the tiers. Dark wool-wrapped wall panels with slim bronze reveals and bronze wall lights, a dark ceiling with a few tiny downlights, and a wide screen in a slim surround showing a misty valley. Through a doorway on the right, a small walnut bar with a lamp and a glass-fronted wine room. Close to the drawings.

Lower ground

203 m² under the fun wing at −3.3: games room, foyer bar and wine room, an eight-seat cinema in the ground, and the plant room.

The card

floors 01 of 03

Lower ground

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The notes

rendered

The lower ground is 203 m² inside, at −3.3, dug in under the fun wing where the land falls away to the south. The walnut stair comes down from the lounge.

cinema

The cinema has no windows and sits in the ground, two floors below the main suite. Eight seats on walnut tiers, with wool-lined walls.

games room

The games room opens south onto a paved lower terrace where the slope falls away. From the meadow it shows as one deep-set opening at the corner of the gritstone plinth.

bar and wine

The wine room is a glass box beside the bar, behind a solid south wall so it stays cool and dark.

plant

The plant room is down here so the heat pump, the roof drive and the AV rack are away from every bedroom.

rooms

Space	Size	Area
Games room	5.8 × 7.5 m	43 m²
Foyer, bar, wine room	5.2 × 7.5 m	39 m²
Cinema, 8 seats	8.0 × 7.5 m	60 m²
Plant room	5.5 × 7.5 m	35 m²
Stair, lift, store	3.5 × 7.5 m	26 m²
Lower ground		203 m²

The drawings

1 sheet

Lower ground plan, sheet 03 rev H, at −3.3, under the south wing, about 1:200. From west to east: the games room opening south onto a paved lower terrace where the slope falls away, the foyer and bar with a glass wine room behind a solid south wall, the eight-seat cinema with no windows, the plant room for the heat pump, the roof drive and the AV rack, and the stair, lift and store, with the walnut stair coming down from the lounge. — 01 · Lower ground plan

The plates

2 · lift any one out

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. — 02 · The house at blue hour from the meadow to the south