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Hodges Place
This new extension to a 17th Century timber framed Kent farmhouse is positioned within the old kitchen garden, and enclosed by an old Kentish ragstone wall which runs along the boundary of the property. The extension is single storey, with a flat, irrigated grass roof, making it very much part of the garden. The roof sensitively ‘touches' the old building, and hovers above the existing ragstone wall. The stone wall is expressed internally along the whole length of the new building, and all the partition walls are cherry veneered panels. Large sliding windows face the garden making all the internal rooms an extension of the garden. Outside the sliding windows is a linear ‘reflecting pool' which runs along the length of the new extension. This device allows flickering light to be bounced into the building and onto the ceiling.
"immaculate in (its) detail and resolution....... Delightful. (This is) what a full architectural appointment can deliver, that alternative forms of procurement cannot dream of" - RIBA Judges