Project story · United Kingdom
A wall that already belongs
In an English village, Village Home keeps its entrance behind a dry-stone wall and lets a pale brick gable echo the village's scale.
By byJOOM · Village Home · Residential
A hidden entrance
The house begins with its boundary. A hidden entrance sits behind the stone wall, so that the village sees a wall it already knows and the family has a front door that is private without being cold. It is a family home for village life.
Pale brick, gable and wing
A tall gabled block and a low wing in pale brick echo the scale of the village. The roofs are simple forms and the proportions are those of the older houses around. A tall hall sits behind the front, and from the garden the whole house reads as two connected volumes with a clear logic.
A pierced brick panel
A pierced brick panel is the one piece of ornament in the scheme. It brings a screen of light and shadow to the face of the house, and in the close view the pattern is crisp against the black frames of the windows. The detail is simple, and it rewards a closer look.
A stone boundary
The stone boundary wall ties the house to its setting. Dry stone is laid as it is elsewhere in the village,. Black-framed windows give the brick a sharp edge, and the house takes its place beside the older buildings without borrowing their costume.
Local-feeling brick and stone, simple roof forms and a boundary that already belongs to the place.
Opening to lawn and terrace
At the back, a kitchen and dining room open to a lawn and terrace. The private side of the house is open where the public side is closed, which is how a village house should be: reserved to the lane, generous to the garden.
A boundary that belongs
Local-feeling brick and stone, simple roof forms and a boundary that already belongs to the place give the design its durability. Village Home is a good argument for building quietly.
This article describes design intention. The images are design visualisations, not photographs of a finished building. See the Disclaimers.