A Whole House, Front to Garden

This is a whole-house project rather than a window replacement: a two-storey family home taken back, remodelled and extended, then glazed as one continuous scheme from the road frontage through to the garden.

The street elevation is deliberately quiet. White render above, red brick below, two hipped bay windows either side of a recessed entrance, and a steel-look casement grid running across both floors. The Georgian bar layout is set out so the bars line through horizontally from bay to bay and from ground floor to first — the detail most people feel without noticing.

Frames are an agate-grey rather than black. Against white render and a red clay tile roof, black would have read hard; the grey holds the steel-look line while keeping the elevation calm in flat Cumbrian light.

The garden elevation is the counterpoint. A full-width single-storey brick extension is glazed almost end to end in dark grey aluminium — a wide door run flanked by fixed screens — with a lantern rooflight set into the flat roof above the kitchen so light falls into the middle of the plan rather than only at its edges.

The drone film reads the house the way it is actually experienced: rooftop approach over the village, a slow descent onto the front elevation and bay windows, then a rise over the ridge to reveal the glazed garden room and terrace behind.