EASTRIDGE HOUSE
Hampshire

 

NIGEL ANDERSON
DIPL ARCH(UCL) RIBA

Eastridge House is located in a Hampshire village. The house replaces a modest early C20th red brick farmhouse of little architectural merit within a smallholding latterly used as a horticultural nursery.

The new house is in the Cottage Orné or Gothick tradition of the early nineteenth century. This form of design has the advantage of being able to mix symmetry with informality and thus reduce the percieved bulk of the structure on this sensitive village site.

The building has lime rendered walls under a slate roof with carved, decorative bargeboards. Single glazed timber windows have sliding sashes with ornate Gothic arched heads, a motif echoed in the first floor dormer openings and projecting eaves details.

The new house and its adjacent garden areas now form an enhanced and attractive approach to the village. Eastridge House was completed in the Autumn of 2002.

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