Client: Private

Location: Hastings, East Sussex

Architect's team: Rosa Appleby Allis

Contractor: Self-built

Structural Engineer: Ellis and Moore

Area: 100 sq m

Construction Cost: £100,000

Completion: 2011

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Our plantswomen clients' brief was to build an exemplary sustainable extension to their existing sandstone farmhouse, incorporating a wide range of advanced environmental strategies. NCA created a timber frame and cedar shingle-clad extension with a meadow flower green roof and a rainwater harvesting system. The works included a centrally located Scandinavian log burning masonry heating system. The extension created a new entrance and living space for the couple, including an elevated patio overlooking the bucolic garden and newly created pond.

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