This 1970s house in Stonely, Kimbolton, has been extended and adapted over the decades with the interior spaces only partially working for the new owners. The clients wanted us to examine how to adapt and extend the property as follows:

• Improve the overall aesthetic to the frontage and the street aspect.
• Enhance the entrance hallway and the first engagement of the house.
• Extend the house to use some of the large parking front.
• Develop the internal garage to create new spaces.
• Add a new workshop and garage.
• Add a new home office space.

This scheme blends new additions with the old whilst giving the frontage a fresh aesthetic which challenges the architecture of the area. The volumes pulled out from the exterior of the property are generated by the requirement for three key spatial additions: a new entrance porch, a home office and a new garage / workshop. These volumes are then staggered both horizontally forward from the front of the house and then also stepped vertically.

The volumes work together to form a comfortable arrangement internally. In turn this generates new spaces externally in the form of a private courtyard garden. In order to produce a design that is sympathetic and softens the external appearance of the harsh front driveway we have designed these as stepped sedum green roofs which will add an ecological factor and natural aesthetic to the exterior. Alongside this, the use of different materials on the exterior freshens the whole aesthetics of the property. Timber cladding and burgundy red tiles also break up the white render of the house.

Internally, we designed a new bespoke staircase and balustrading to the entrance hall, which opens up the views through the house. In addition, we carried out interior design works for the children’s bedrooms and new office space.

We secured planning permission for the scheme in August 2021. The construction works to the property were completed September 2025 and we are awaiting final photographs.