This late Victorian building was formerly the lodge and stables to the main house further up the drive. A courtyard between the single storey stables and the two storey lodge receives morning and early afternoon sun. An outbuilding to the north-west of the lodge, clad in corrugated steel sheet, is used as garage and storage. Insensitive accretions over time detract from the lodge’s architecture.
The clients, who live in the main house, wished to explore the feasibility of creating separate plots and to refurbish and remodel the lodge buildings as a smaller home for themselves in their retirement, with sufficient space for visiting offspring.
In this iteration the later additions are removed to allow the original lodge to regain its original composition; the ground floor of the lodge and stables opened up internally to offer a series of contiguous living spaces, with the upper floor converted to two ensuite bedrooms. The outbuilding is extended as a ‘family annexe’ with two ground level bedrooms, with a new glazed entrance link between this and the refurbished lodge
The outbuilding is re-clad in Cor-ten corrugated sheet; the lodge and stables carefully refurbished and thermally upgraded internally.