Oakdene

New contemporary family home in Ramsden celebrates bucolic setting near the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

Client

Ox Luxe Ltd

Location

Ramsden

Size

510sqm

Status

Approved Feb 2024

The new four-bedroom family home includes a garage workshop and garden barn to provide additional flexible living. The new home, set on a sloped topography, takes advantage of stunning views across the adjacent mature landscape and sensitively nestles itself within the landscape to omit impact from Ramsden High Street.

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The family of buildings descend away from the entrance to further add to the seclusion of the site. The relationship between local built and natural forms informed the proposed layout by emulating the origins of the settlement of farmsteads within forest clearings typically found alongside the Roman Road.

The considered placement of spaces on site has established and improved the connection between the main house and the landscape. The structures are carefully orientated to address the site and its south-westerly prospect over the village valley.

The approved design pursues a sustainable approach through the incorporation of regional, low carbon building materials and environmentally conscious ideas such as; renewable energy sources, solar shading, robust thermal envelope, and harmonising with its natural surroundings. The proposal will look to reuse as much of the existing deconstructed house materials as achievable.

The resulting family home is a contemporary interpretation of the local vernacular with the form and materiality directly referencing the local architecture prominent in the Ramsden Village.

The three buildings coalesce around a small courtyard, open to the garden along the south-eastern side, creating a sheltered sun trap. The arrangement reveals a more intimate scale, glimpsed through mature trees, with a thoughtfully composed domestic garden responding to the needs of everyday family life.

Location Plan.

The existing mature perimeter trees to the boundary will be preserved alongside the conservation of the meadow on site to enhance the existing gardens and biodiversity.

Ground Floor Plan.

The main living spaces are organised in enfilade along the view over the valley. A double-height entrance and stairway at the centre of the house culminate in a double-height dining space.

First Floor Plan

“It’s been a pleasure working with a such special site in a beautiful place. We've been able to draw inspiration from a rich local architectural history, the peaceful woodland clearing, and the rolling view over the valley.”

Matt Iliffe, Project Architect at GPAD
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ALASDAIR BROWNLOW

SENIOR ARCHITECT