a Yorkshire market town it got mixed responses – most of them positive. But few sang his praises more vocally than restauranteur Tanya Hawkins, who literally did a double take as she was driving past the house one day. “I couldn’t believe how striking it was,” she
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says. “I loved the design and as soon as I set eyes on the house I wanted to live there. It was totally different to anything else I’d seen.” The property was the last of four highly indi-
vidual houses to be designed by Bramhall Blenkharn Architects, on an unusually shaped corner of a residential street. It had to fit into a banana-shaped plot of land, so Ric designed an elbow-shaped house with sharp, crisp angles, steep, off-set roof lines and contrasting build materials. Inside he created spacious rooms with high ceilings, large windows and a feature open- plan staircase linking the three floors which between them amount to 4,000 sq ft. “It was a challenge because of the unusual shape of the plot and the fact that it
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hen architect Ric Blenkharn designed a speculative contempo- rary house for a site in the middle of
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The property was the last of four highly individual houses to be designed by Bramhall Blenkharn Architects, on an unusually shaped corner of a residential street. It had to fit into a banana-shaped plot of land, so Ric designed an elbow-shaped house
is on a steep slope,” says Ric. “It involved a lot of steelwork.” But Ric is no stranger to tough design
challenges, and he began by creating a con- temporary home that would reflect the surround- ing area which mainly features large villas set in mature landscaping.
] “I wanted to make sure that all views from the
house were private, even though the house is quite close to neighbouring properties,” says Ric. “Of the four houses we developed on the site, this was the most challenging.” Fortunately the local council was receptive to the plans, thanks to Bramhall Blenkharn’s
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