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Forester's Cottage — Rural Worker's Home, Berkshire

Windsor and Maidenhead

Project Details

£0.5m to £0.99M

New Build, Para 79 house, Sited in AONB, Sited in Greenbelt land

Practice

Markos Design Workshop

Office 1, Izabella House , 24-26 Regent Place , Birmingham , West Midlands , B1 3NJ , United Kingdom

A 64 m² home for the person who manages a 4.45-hectare woodland holding in the Berkshire Green Belt, where a forest school and an alternative-provision setting run through the week. The work cannot be managed from a distance, and the planning case rests on that essential need. The dwelling is sized to it: 50 m² of domestic space, exactly the Nationally Described Space Standard minimum for a one-bedroom, two-person home, plus 14 m² of working space for a site office, storage and a working entrance. A single-storey timber cabin raised off the woodland floor under a deep oversailing roof, with a glazed growing courtyard at the centre of the plan. Currently at pre-application.