Georgian Country House, W. Essex

Countryside settings can provide opportunity for significant development gains for residential plots as this project demonstrates. The original property on the site was a relatively poor quality Arts and Crafts Style house of circa 2,580 sqft (GIA).

The new dwelling has been designed in response to it’s immediate and surrounding setting and with reference to classical principles of architecture. The building’s plan form and facades have been designed in an appropriate traditional Classical manner incorporating design principles long established in the classical orders of architecture, such as symmetry, proportion, the golden section and entasis as the building elevates.

Initial gains were made through the implementation of the permitted development rights that the site afforded, resulting in an additional 3,560 sqft taking the overall combined achievable mass being 6,130 sqft which in turn was developed into this final scheme.