KITCHEN WORKTOPS Fast Granite fast-granite.co.uk


KITCHEN APPLIANCES Domestic Supplies domesticsupplies.co.uk


LANDSCAPING Sue Haywood suehaywood.co.uk


LIGHTING Tala


tala.co.uk o afed tomraffield.com


MVHR Midland Renewables midlandrenewables.co.uk


PAINTS Farrow & Ball farrow-ball.com Little Greene littlegreene.com Valspar/B&Q diy.com


“The previous house that we built had quite a


modern look all painted white sleek and clean says Jane, who now spends much of her time caring for her father. “This house was a bit more of an emotional response; we had just been through ovid she adds. “This formed the idea for the interior. I wanted it to be more cosy, more homely, more low- key. Some of the colours we’ve used are quite dark. It’s a friendlier house, it feels completely different to the previous one. Some of the oak paruet flooring from the original 1930s house was repurposed – as was the structure itself, crushed onsite to provide recycled hardcore used in the landscaping. The shakerstyle kitchen panelling and brass fittings also epitomise the traditional elements of the interior style, with the backdrop of uadrupleglaed akro rooflights and triple-glazed Internorm windows, chosen for strength and energy efficiency bringing in a contemporary edge.


The total build, including demolition of the existing house, worked out at £1,600 per m2


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costing around £560,000 in total. However, the project was hit with unexpected costs of £10,000 to rebuild a 30 metre portion of the eastern wall part of the rade  listed eversal anor Gardens. “The previous owner of the original Last House had allowed ivy to grow unchecked for  years which destroyed the mortar raig explains. “We carefully took our side of the wall down and rebuilt it with an approved lime mortar mi.


Also unexpected was the cost of the basement. Craig recognised that the sloping nature of the site leant itself to the new house


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having an undercroft, ideal as he wanted to be able to safely store his sit-on mower and drive it straight out into the gardens. This ambition has been achieved through adding a roller shutter door. Encouraged by architect Paul, Craig and Jane agreed that it made sense to extend the undercroft to a full basement. “We thought it was a good idea, but we got a complete shock when quotations for the work came back aul admits. t was si figures just to do the retaining structure. We thought, ‘we can’t afford that’. Fortunately, we knew a groundworker in the village who had other groundworkers working with him, so we asked him to price up the job. By doing it in-house, we cut the cost down by just over £100,000 to . The four metre deep hole for the basement was lined with waterproof concrete. The timber frame for the rest of the house sits on top of the inner portion of the concrete basement. To support the open-plan interior spaces internal structural steel beams come off pads at basement level, with some up to six metres high for the two storey part of the house. Getting this element of the build right was understandably challenging, Craig says: “We had a bit of a conflict between akworth and the architects, it was one of those things no-one could have foreseen. The guy dealing with it at Oakworth had a heart attack. He did recover, thankfully but there was a period of five to six weeks where communication between the architects and akworth was a little difficult. There was a structural element that was in the wrong place, but we got round it by bolting a steel onto the concrete wall.


PAVING


Black Mountain Quarries blackmountainquarries.co.uk


PLUMBING MKSR


Plumbing & Heating 07813 835016


HEATING


The Electric Heating Company


electric-heatingcompany.co.uk


ROOFLIGHTS Fakro fakro.co.uk


ROOFING MATERIALS Jewson


jewson.co.uk


SANITARYWARE Better Bathrooms betterbathrooms.com


STRUCTURAL ENGINEER Simon Palmer


TIMBER FRAME Oakworth oakworthtimberengineering.co.uk


WINDOWS Internorm internorm.co


nov/dec 2024


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