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.
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Architects: BBM Sustainable Architects Ltd

Location: Hadlow Down, Uckfield, East Sussex TN22, UK

Area: 459.0 sqm

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: Leigh Simpson

Site Manager: Chalmers & Co.

Contractors: Chalmers & Co.

Craftsmen: Inglis Hall & Co.

Construction Time: 20 months

Build Rate Approx: £3000/m2 (house only)

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From the architect. 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 developin...