Stanyard’s Cottage, Surrey Home Renovation, UK Home Development Extension, Architecture Project Images
Stanyard’s Cottage in Surrey, England
28 Aug 2020
Stanyard’s Cottage in Surrey
Design: Alter & Company
Location: Surrey, southeast England, UK
Stanyard’s Cottage is a quaint ‘sticks and stones’ cottage which forms the heart of this family home is situated in a grade two listed site and is set within a concealed location, surrounded by scrub and woodlands.

The proposed design sensitively organises the existing farm buildings, enabling an external ? internal landscape approach to the otherwise disconnectedness of the farm buildings.

The role of play as a modality has also been a key influence that forms a looping internal landscape through which imparts a journey of varying expansive spaces. Alongside this journey, sculptural landmarks were inserted between and into the building, either as a way of contributing to the journey – or diverting it.
This approach to design invited a type of playfulness into everyday activities. The experimental journey throughout the buildings became one compressive space, full of light, materiality and history.

Key Challenges

The modernisation process involved preserving some of the buildings’ original features, which were removed and restored before being reinserted into the reconfigured interiors.

The Solutions

By incorporating the farm buildings into the house, we sought to cre...