Zinc House - Hambledon

This Grade II listed house in the centre of a picturesque Hampshire village, which had been extended and altered over the years resulting in a disjointed layout, leaving its young family with no real space to gather or connect with the garden.

The addition of a new wing housing the kitchen and family space, as well as a rationalisation of layout, has transformed it into a bright and welcoming family home, directly linked with the garden and improving the spatial sequence of movement through the house. The limited material palette of zinc, natural oak and glass, as well as its deceptively simple detailing, consciously separates the extension from the existing house while complimenting and respecting the quality and texture of its materiality. The use of untreated oak cladding provides a subtle foil to the zinc and glass, softening the carefully detailed clean lines of the addition and, once faded over time to a silver grey, will help to cement the extension’s position in its natural surroundings.