British studio Mole Architects has overhauled the Stone’s Throw bungalow on the coast of Suffolk, including a timber-framed extension containing sunny south-facing residing areas.
Named after its proximity to the shoreline, the Nineteen Sixties bungalow in a quiet cul-de-sac in Aldeburgh has been expanded and reworked for a pair to make use of as a vacation house.
Cambridge-based Mole Architects eliminated Stone’s Throw’s under-used storage, which occupied its sunny south-facing finish with views over neighbouring bushes.
As a substitute, the studio has added a 74-square-metre extension containing a lounge, eating house and kitchen, which have been moved from the alternative facet of the house.
“We noticed that if we may place the lounge in an extension on the reverse finish of the home, it could have unbelievable south-facing views onto adjoining bushes,” mentioned studio founder Meredith Bowles.
The Stone’s Throw extension has a timber-framed construction and a roof product of uncovered softwood, handled with a translucent white stain.
Inside is a excessive ceiling, punctured by a triangular rooflight and angled column. This separates the primary eating and kitchen from the elevated residing house past. Extra mild is introduced into the house by means of north-facing clerestory home windows.
On the coronary heart of the kitchen is an island shaped of belvedere quartzite stone with swirling patterns harking back to a portray of the ocean by Suffolk-born artist Maggi Hambling – a favorite of the consumer. This sits towards a flooring product of end-grain woodblock.
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Mole Architects up to date the outside of Stone’s Throw with a painted render on the prevailing bungalow and its masonry chimney.
In the meantime, the face of the extension is clad with vertical cedar battens round tall slender home windows, forming a recent counterpart to the prevailing dwelling.
Within the early design phases, Bowles referenced one other Nineteen Sixties single-storey home in Suffolk designed by the architect Bryan Thomas.
Different references included Elizabethan and Jacobean lengthy galleries akin to that in Blickling Corridor, a stately house in Norfolk.
“We needed to offer our abnormal bungalow a number of the panache of the period, with a bigger scale and sense of openness,” mentioned Bowles.
“It appears like a totally completely different home. The shoppers have described the transformation as ‘extra an epiphany’ than a refurbishment,” he added.
Different current initiatives accomplished by Mole Architects embrace The Large Shed academic house in Cambridgeshire and Alde Valley Barn, a brick-clad vacation house on a Suffolk farmyard.
The images is by Nick Guttridge.
