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Strawberry Farm

Project Details

Sited in Greenbelt land

Practice

Cass Design Consultants Ltd

Studio 204 B , The Tea Factory , 82 Wood Street , LIVERPOOL , L1 4DQ , United Kingdom

The former dairy to the Lever Estate, Strawberry Farm is located in the green belt and near to a Site of Special Landscape Value. An earlier planning application to extend the existing buildings had been refused. • Scheme included a detached extension including garden room, family areas, office, sauna and pool changing facilities, together with conservatory extension to existing house and extensive remodelling to garden areas. • Planning permission would have been unobtainable, however we negotiated consent on behalf of the client under ‘permitted development’ rules. • Timber-framed structure with green oak and cedar cladding and a curved living sedum roof, offset by large sliding glazed doors on south elevation, the main pavilion is modernist in concept yet sits naturally within the landscape. • Garden re-designed to create new terracing around swimming pool, with lawn framed by house and pavilion. • Highly-insulated, using Air Source Heat Pump to maximise energy efficiency in off-grid location.