Edgefield, Norfolk | Project | Cannon Clarke Architects

Project Details

Client Private
Location Edgefield, Norfolk
Size 236 sqm
Sectors Living

Cannon Clarke Architects won on appeal Planning Consent for the significant extension and refurbishment to a 1950’s cottage style dwelling in rural North Norfolk.

The proposals compromised a large 2 storey side extension to accommodate living/kitchen/dining at ground floor with 2 new bedrooms and bathrooms at first floor. The original house having a full reconfiguration to provide 3 additional bedrooms and other living room areas.

The design for the two-storey element entailed a portal framed volume overclad in Siberian larch with detail flint cobble panels edged in cor-ten steel to the base. These panels echo, in a contemporary manner, the red brick framed cobble panels of the original building and allow full height glazing panels between them.

Internally the dual pitched roof form is evident with bedrooms, landing and stairwell ceilings taken to the apex allowing flooding of natural light via strategically placed rooflights.

Cannon Clarke Architects were engaged by the client for all of the work-stages and administered the contract on site.

Testimonial

Andrew and Lesley said “We looked at a project house and thought hmmm. We met a builder and he said hmmm. The two hmmm reaction led to a meeting with Andy Clarke and he said hmmm. And, within a few days had developed some sketches that turned the hmmm into a possible. These were worked up and plans submitted. North Norfolk planners were not helpful. They wanted 440mm reduced from the roof line so new plans were drawn. Then nothing happened at all. Throughout this process Jon Brent (Andy’s business partner) kept us informed. He advised us to go down the appeal route and that worked. We had planning permission. Then it was a year to wait for the builder and the build took 10 months. It was overseen with monthly site visits and keep in touch phone calls.

The team were useful to have around when the window supplier found it difficult to use a tape measure and some windows were different sizes to the holes they were due to go into. But, around five years after the first hmmm – and 18 months since we got the house back we have a house that causes us to say aaah. It is warm, eco-friendly with an EPC of B and oodles of space. Canon Clarke listened to our ideas and incorporated as many of them as they could.”