Wardie Extension

The brief was to form a single storey kitchen extension to an existing listed terraced townhouse, forming a new kitchen and dining space on a modest budget.

Early discussions with Planning Listed Buildings favored a contemporary flat roofed structure in order to expose a much of the existing stonework of the garden elevation.

A further constraint was the discovery of old mining shafts under the site, which necessitated the structural design of a raft foundation and lightweight timber structure.

This is clad in air dried larch which will compliment the existing stone once faded to silvery grey, and the roof has been extended out over the entrance corner with exposed and expressed rafter ends giving some shelter to the back door and some definition to the garden elevation.