Completed 2023 | Architect: James Grayley Architects
Featured in ‘Wonderlands’ by Clare Coulson published by Quadrille books
Country garden scheme for a contemporary home designed by James Grayley Architects that sits sensitively in the historic remnants of the existing former agricultural building. The scheme embraces the natural beauty of the borrowed landscape with naturalistic planting and considered use of hedging and trees.
Previously the concrete yard adjacent to a former dairy building long since redundant, creating a garden involved demolishing the existing hard standing, recycling the concrete waste in gabion walls, re-siting an electricity pole, regrading the land and adding extensive areas of naturalistic, pollinator friendly planting, a permeable driveway and cobbled terrace with a reflective tank and boulders sourced from the local quarry. A planted swale intercepts rainwater runoff from the surrounding fields. ‘Despite it’s contemporary design, nothing feels out of place here… close to the house, a galvanised steel tank provides mesmerising views of the surrounding trees as well as the delicate planting’ Clare Coulson ‘Wonderlands’
