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Portfolio / Residential / Kelham
has been reproduced and special purpose made window units manufactured. Head and cill details have been replicated.We also observed the issue of consistency within the development and took and adapted architectural details and features designed and built by Sir George Gilbert Scott’s within the farm complex and incorporated them to the new dwellings. Decorative cut brick specialist lintels, sandstone window cills and coursing to brickwork, details of brickwork patterns to gable walls and specialist chimney brick work details were replicated throughout the entire new build. Vertical proportions to the conversion scheme and the new build were also observed.
The layout of the housing scheme was designed as that the original focal feature within the site in the form of the Gilbert Scott Tower would not be distracted. The new dwellings were designed to groups in courtyard formation in order to provide the dwellings a sense of identity whilst reflecting the principals of the original crew yard to the farm.
The principal access to the site is flanked by two gatehouses,
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