Pink House: Pewsey, Whiltshire

Client: Martin Bunce and Aly Storey

This scheme, a large extension to a Victorian cottage on the edge of the local conservation area, is effectively a new building added to an accumulation of structures which has arrived over time.

The aim of the project was to provide a responsible, appropriate, and sustainable building.

The architects paid close attention to the Pewsey Village Design Statement and the Kennet District Local Plan and argued strongly that a building of this century should read clearly as of its time (as half timbered seventeenth, Georgian brick eighteenth, Victorian nineteenth and Edwardian twentieth century domestic buildings – cheek by jowl – already do in Pewsey).

The form is a simple rectangular plan, set at an angle to the existing house, with a shallow aluminium barrel vault roof (exposed internally). The design is for untreated larch cladding- the upper part close-boarded the lower part spaced to form a trellis.

The building is ‘the first house in the village’ if approached from the south, and the importance of the new gable in this respect is marked by a structural glass window.

The process was a collaborative one.