Broxbourne, Hertfordshire

A small Victorian schoolhouse refurbished as a weekend retreat for two artists and their family. The ground floor is reconfigured to allow a more informal arrangement of rooms and to provide a greater sense of space. An extension provides additional bedrooms and a larger communal living space. Its form is such that it balances the main south elevation and completes what was previously an awkward gable end roof, but built in timber frame and clad in green oak weatherboarding rather than the red brick of the original building. When viewed from the west the extension gives a new face to the building recalling images of both a cottage and a cabin.