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Architects: BBM Sustainable Architects Ltd
- Area: 459 m²
- Year: 2015
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Photographs:Leigh Simpson
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Manufacturers: Duravit, Baumit, Baumit render & Gutex Insulation, C.P. Hart, Element 7, Fairwater, Fineline Aluminium, Guncast Pools, Gutex, Inwood Developments Limited, Koop, Lime Plaster & Tadelakt Plaster, M Design, Silent Gliss, Steyson, Tadelakt, Terra Therma, The Metal Roof Company, Velfac, Vola
Text description provided by the architects. BBM were commissioned in 2008 to propose a sustainable master plan for a country estate in East Sussex. Our client wanted us to consider the viability of developing a derelict 1940’s dairy, retrofitting and extending a 1970’s house and a 19th Century Oast House situated next to each other. Working with Studio Engleback, who produced a parallel strategy for the surrounding landscape, the challenge was to create a low energy development from a brief that is traditionally extremely energy hungry, i.e. a new heated swimming pool with steam room and sauna, an external ‘natural pool’, and a high specification country house set in 275 acres of Wealden countryside that includes a lake and 150 acres of standing coppice woodland.
