Initially Snell David were asked to consider ways of remodelling and extending the existing house. However after the clients visited a newbuild Arts and Crafts house, completed by Snell David and featured in a magazine, it was decided to demolish and rebuild using a large proportion of the existing foundations.

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The clients favoured the less formal, unostentatious image of Arts and Crafts houses and particularly enjoyed ways in which the ‘craftsmanship’ features detailed internally as well as externally.

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The result is a large, handsome house that has a relatively strong, simple frontage, which relaxes to the side and rear as the large roof stretches down to a low level with buttresses connecting it to its garden.