shingle house
Shingle House is a 1950s bungalow in the Bradford-on-Avon conservation area, located in near proximity to the grade-1 listed Tithe Barn site.
The clients for Shingle House are seeking to sensitively retrofit and extend the existing building. The intention is to insulate and over-clad the building with natural, sustainable materials. To create vital additional space for the clients' growing young family, the project will convert an existing garage adjacent to the house into habitable space, and replace and extend the existing roof in order to provide some usable floorspace higher up within the property.
We proposed using wooden shingles for the cladding of the existing walls and new roofs - these will quickly weather to a silver-grey, and make them recessive in appearance within the context of the landscape. Shingles are not dissimilar in texture, colour and appearance to the stone walls and stone tiles of the nearby Tithe Barn, as well as the tone of many of the surrounding stone buildings.
The work aims to preserve the interesting bungalow form and to improve the existing interior, providing the extra internal space that clients need.
