Log in to access exclusive content, membership benefits and update your details. You can find your RIBA Membership number on your membership card.
Not a member? Join the RIBA
Don't have a login? Create a web account
New Build
Old Hyde House , 75 Hyde Street , Winchester , Hampshire , SO23 7DW , United Kingdom
The replacement ‘butterfly’ plan house, a type made popular by the Arts and Crafts movement in the late 19th Century/early 20th Century, is the most suitable plan in an exposed location such as this. A garage, pool pavilion, boathouse, associated landscaping, and a biodiversity scheme will also enhance the surroundings. The new house will be re-sited further to the northeast of the plot, away from the more sensitive ecological areas, and will be lower in height. The scheme draws some inspiration from the nearby Exbury Estate, with the use of buff-colour rendered walls, natural slate roofs and grey/yellow brick and timber outbuildings. The use of a shallow pitched slate roof covering and the use of the vertically proportioned ground floor structural openings would indicate an external appearance that has a Regency character and style. The low-key classical language and asymmetric plan are wholly appropriate in this location, as it allows the beauty of the structure to be derived from its elegant and dynamic butterfly form.