Arts & Crafts Extension
Overview
The house perches on the banks of the idyllic Percuil River. The storybook setting and its rambling garden make this Cornish property particularly special. COAL has been involved across both architecture and interior design.
The brief for the project was to renovate the existing house and annexe, and also add a new wing to provide additional bedrooms and bathrooms for an extended family. The original house is newer than it appears, built in the 1950s in the Arts & Crafts style. Our design for the extension evolves the story of the house’s architecture by again reinterpreting the traits of the Arts and Crafts style through traditional forms, materials and detailing. However, the architectural language then starts to subtly distort as dormers pop out from the walls and chimneys become windows.
Beneath the roughcast masonry shell of the extension is a highly insulated timber frame, which was engineered with shallow foundations and no steelwork to minimise the embodied carbon of the project.
The interiors took reference from the Arts & Crafts through the use of William Morris and Voysey wallpapers, heirloom textiles, and interesting antiques, which emphasise the handmade and plenty of rich colour.
