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The site for Fig
Tree House is in a Surrey village. This was a
fine plot of land with an existing property
that had been allowed to fall into a state of disrepair.
It was therefore considered uneconomical to repair
the property and therefore a planning application was
made for demolition and production of a new building.
As this is Greenbelt territory, a number of conditions
needed to be adhered to and after considerable negotiation
with the Local Planning Authority a satisfactory planning
approval was achieved.
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It was considered
necessary to design a building which had spacious accommodation
that would allow for the activities required by a modern day family.
This included consideration of forming a large family room with interesting
design features such as exposed oak beams. Care was also taken to design
the kitchen/breakfast room layout, which allowed for a spacious environment
with an utility room running off from this area with an external door
to the rear garden. The design was such that the overall appearance fitted
in with the local environment as a cottage style dwelling. Two inglenook
fireplaces were constructed incorporating mature oak beam bressimers.
The heating system was designed to provide underfloor heating throughout
the building giving a very good comfort level together with continuous
hot water supply to the four bathrooms. |
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The construction
of the above property was formed using conventional foundations
as the detailed subsoil investigation
proved that the load bearing characteristics of the
soil were sufficient to adopt a conventional solution.
The walls up to first floor were constructed in brick
and block with a pre-cast concrete ground and first
floor slab and then above this, the building was timber
framed
and
faced externally with hand made tiles. The roof also
had the benefit of hand made tiles and all the windows
were constructed using timber to fit in with the environment.
Finishes were to a high standard including natural
limestone to a large area of the ground floor. Other
sections were screeded with carpet finish. The kitchen
was purpose made hand-built with solid wood doors and
granite worktops. To improve security, radio controlled
wrought iron gates were installed with two metre high
brick walls around the external perimeter of the site
to match up with those existing. |
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