Surrey Homes | SH111 | April 2024 | Garden Supplement inside
The lifestyle magazine for Surrey - Inspirational Interiors, Fabulous Fashion, Delicious Dishes
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Top: Cedar cladding has been used on the exterior of the more<br />
modern part of the house, whilst bricks reclaimed from an old<br />
garden wall tie this section in with the bricks of the older barn<br />
With ultimate flexibility of living<br />
in mind, they have installed a water<br />
supply to this side of the house so that<br />
a kitchen could be added, in case the<br />
building ever needed to be two separate<br />
dwellings. At the moment though it<br />
works as one house just perfectly – and<br />
Victoria has cleverly made the interior<br />
decor flow. Lighting is a key factor in<br />
the overall design. It is all LED, from a<br />
combination of small spotlights in the<br />
ceilings, but it’s the hanging pendant<br />
and accent lamps that are noticed.<br />
The large tungsten effect filaments<br />
bring – along with the industrial<br />
vibe – warmth and cohesion to the<br />
two very different styles of building.<br />
“We used the same colours all<br />
through for the window frames, door<br />
handles and the light fittings,” she<br />
says. “The windows are all bespoke<br />
and each one is a different size. They<br />
were made by Phase One joinery. We<br />
used local suppliers all through.”<br />
“Many people who worked here<br />
knew the land, or fished in the pond as<br />
children,” adds Dominic. The heritage<br />
status is perhaps as much in the land as<br />
in the buildings that occupy it, linking<br />
communities to the features, buildings<br />
and natural spaces in their locality.<br />
“We found a batten of wood in the<br />
roof,” he says, “with a tally of planes<br />
shot down in the Battle of Britain –<br />
that must have been raging in the skies<br />
overhead when the roof was being<br />
repaired during the war.” That piece of<br />
wood is a visceral link to the past, but<br />
also to the landscape, to the people that<br />
must have watched the dog fights taking<br />
place in the skies above them here.<br />
The past is always being uncovered<br />
and rebuilt, battles won and lost. This<br />
building will stand as testament to<br />
Dominic and Eve’s persistence and<br />
determination to succeed in creating<br />
something new. They and their team<br />
have worked together to reshape a<br />
future for two dilapidated wrecks –<br />
triumphantly repurposing a heritage<br />
building, creating a brilliant new one<br />
and blending them together into a sleek,<br />
contemporary home. The story arc of<br />
this build is complete, but as Dominic<br />
and Eve now have their sights set on<br />
another project, there may well be a<br />
sequel at some point in the future.<br />
Address Book:<br />
Victoria Allen can be contacted<br />
for design projects by emailing<br />
v.e.allen.design@gmail.com or see<br />
Instagram @victoriaallendesign<br />
To speak to Courts Management Ltd<br />
about a project, email Jeremy at<br />
jeremy@courtsmanagement.com or<br />
see www.courtsmanagement.com<br />
You can find out about Jeremy’s artworks<br />
at jecoart.net and his daughter Nina’s<br />
pressed flower works at antherart.co.uk<br />
Biosun (green energy systems)<br />
biosunenergy.co.uk<br />
Mandarin Stone mandarinstone.com<br />
Phase One Joinery phaseonejoinery.co.uk<br />
Sphere 8 sphere8.com<br />
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