Nigel Dalby Architecture

Linked extension to 19th Century Farmhouse

A fine Grade II Listed Regency Vicarage at Laughton with a compromised ground floor due to the kitchen taking up one of the principal rear reception rooms. The proposed scheme recasts the old service wing, demolishes the old storage buildings and forms a new steel structure to tie in the earlier work with a new roof structure spanning the width of the scheme and expressed as a glazed gable end to follow the pitch and scale of the existing.


Topgraphical Survey : MJ Zara Ltd
Structural Engineer : Ellis Structures Ltd

New Service Range as two low parallel ranges screened by raised flank wall

Founthill Farm is an early 16th Century Grade II* timber framed farmhouse part of a small farmstead on the outskirts of Newick. The principal  early 16th Century timber framed range has exposed original close studwork with lime plaster infill.  The problem was trying to appropriately extend this fine traditional building to provide an exciting  and more generous new kitchen and dining wing as the existing plan is very compromised by modern spatial standards.  The scheme was designed as a freestanding contemporary glass pavilion constructed within a sunken brick courtyard  to the south elevation initially with a narrow umbilical fully glazed link to the main house. This was widened at clients request into a fully glazed mezzanine and  granted Planning & Listed Building and Building consent early 2016. Construction completion August 2017.

Contractor:  Len Brandsbury  Construction

Structural Engineer: Ellis Structures Ltd

A contemporary glass single storey wing attached to a substantial Grade II listed Victorian house. The existing house was originally a bold red brick and tile hung extension attached to a stucco Georgian two window house and the  house was  split into two dwellings in the 1960s.  To achieve the split a small flat roofed extension was added to provide a kitchen which meant the subject house has inadequate service accommodation for a house of this scale and furthermore it is tucked away in the north corner of the site with no outlook. The proposed new wing provides  a strong contrast to the existing building and will enable commensurate quality accommodation including a new kitchen & dining room looking south across the fine gardens with new utility, storage and service accommodation. The project was finished July 2016 and clients invited the build team to lunch to celebrate!

A Grade II Listed late medieval Timber Framed house with evidence of a rear aisle and sooted rafters, original build of 1400 with later additions and it was still thatched in the 1960s.  Dr Annabelle Hughes inspected and reported on this building in 1999. Our proposal was working within the later rear service wing and adding a direct glazed extension with some  internal alterations  to provide a new kitchen & family dining area with principal bathroom above with views  across the farmland rising to the rear of the property.

This small Farmhouse, Listed Grade II, is part of a farmstead on Ditchling Common and comprises a principal range with a service wing attached to the rear. Unusually it  has a rounded beach stone facade partly concealed at first floor by tile hanging.  NDA have successfully obtained Planning & Listed Building Consent from Lewes DC to extend with a timber clad 2 storey range linked to and and running parallel to the rear service range with a single storey glazed link (this neatly enlarges the existing service accommodation). The new work is set back and apart from the principal elevation to avoid disturbing the built configuration and to allow a  clear interpretation of the chronology of the building which would be shrouded by a direct extension.

A fine Georgian house in Newick with later alterations and service wing.  The owners were unsure how to extend the building so NDA were invited to design a two storey rear extension to replace the existing narrow service wing.  Several solutions were proposed.

Grade II Listed  townhouse  one of a freestanding terrace near the riverside of  Lewes. Grounds floor glazed extension with attic conversion to study bedroom. A very tight scheme on a very old filled former river-side site, attic construction typically tight dimensionally and lightly structured!

New timber framed garage/office/garden building in tight urban site at rear of Listed Building in Southover Street Lewes. The new building allows for the sloping site and sits alongside two 18th Century flint boundary walls heading up a narrow drive running up to the rear of the property from the road running below.

A Grade II listed late 17th Century house set in the High Street of Cuckfield, we obtained detailed Listed and Planning Consent for a new kitchen resited within an existing service wing which was refurbished and we also obtained consent for a new closet wing extension.

NDA obtained Conservation Area Consent here for a discrete single storey red brick  side extension to a picturesque Georgian cottage sited very prominently on Western Green near Hampton Court. There was naturally a great deal of local interest in the project and it required a high standard of drawn presentation work and 3D imagery to clarify the work for all concerned.

A two-storey range of ancillary outbuildings built against the old pond bay & part of the old mill at Rowfant with stunning lake views. The developer owner was struggling to find a way to achieve a viable conversion and asked NDA to assess the scheme. The proposals we suggested and gained approvals for were very quickly implemented and the units sold immediately.

Grade II Listed Barn unusually converted to a house in the 1940s. NDA designed a new attic conversion with some rear facing dormers, new staircase,  first floor alterations, new kitchen and various other alterations within the building. The works were completed.

A fine substantial brick mid 18th   Century country house Listed Grade II with 3rd gear drive.  We demolished an existing faceted attached conservatory  and designed a replacement Orangery wing as offices with a new service access stair to serve the basement below and mezzanine above.

A delightful old 19th Century Abattoir in the grounds of a Grade II Listed House once owned by the village Butcher. The Abattoir was heading towards collapse which the old timber machinery at roof level no doubt contributed to and required extensive discrete strengthening to ensure its integrity and now forms an attractive 2 bedroom cottage. Dates: Abbattoir: 1999-2004, Main house 2005.

NDA designed a top glazed link extension to expand the rear service wing out to the party wall, obtained all consents and inspected the works, The property was extensively refurbished and we added and additional storey hidden behind the parapet to this fine London Terraced Town House in NW11 for a private client.

We dismantled and stored a 19th Century oak framed hovel which we acquired from Slaugham Place and eventually sold the structure privately. The purchasers then asked us to design and obtain consent for a substantial extension to their fine old Oasthouse in Maresfield. Fortunately the Oasthouse had been converted to residential use in the 1940s so we were able to negotiate this large extension to replace outdated service accommodation and recast the main living accommodation.

This project involved the erection of a two storey cross wing attached to a bland gable end to the existing service wing attached at 90 degs against the main house stack of this Listed Grade II 16th Century range. The north (entrance) elevation has an expressed box frame in good condition. In contrast to the rather closed configuration of the existing house the extension was orientated  to acknowledge a strong diagonal view across the lawn towards a distant Oak set in the field beyond. The extension corner was expressed as a 2 storey Oriel window in Oak  with flanking buttresses to give definition and shadow and pick up the line of the adjacent brick garden walling. A radial set of  yorkstone steps allowed the higher ground to set down elegantly to meet the glazed corner of the new wing and complete the architectural composition.

The existing house was 229.30sqm and the additional floor area amounted to over 40% increase. Subsequently a  small single storey service wing was also added to our extension and internal alterations made by others.