JOHN PARDEY ARCHITECTS CHEERAN HOUSE
The two·storey house engages with an existing walled garden that was formerly part of the Basildon Park Estate in West Berkshire. A timber-dad box containing the bedrooms 'floats' over the masonry and glass ground floor. Flint-faced walls extend out into the landscape, further embedding the scheme within its context. <l Site plan; a substantial brick chimney is designed to tie the upperand lower-level volumes together compositionally.
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€heeran House byJohn Pardey Architects occupies a semi-constrained site between Reading and Oxford in West Berkshire. The 284-squaremetre scheme is based on the desire to maximise a south-facing aspect and engage with an existing walled garden that was previously part of the Basildon Park Estate, but now forms part of the site, albeit outside the residential curtilage. The house is planned around a partially sunken courtyard in response to strict planning restrictions relating to development height and a steeply sloping site. A single-storey wing containing a guest suite and study is located on the east side of the plan under a sedum roof. Set back beneath the upper storey of the adjacent wing, the ground-floor living spaces face south,
partially enclosing the courtyard with a fullheight glass wall. Porcelain floor tiles run from inside to outside, bluring the distinction between house and garden. The external ground floor walls are faced in flint, sourced from the adjoining grade-two listed former schoolhouse. Clad in sweet chestnut boarding, a timber box containing the bedrooms 'floats' above the north-facing red-brick garden wall facade. A masonry chimney is designed to visually unite the upper and lower volumes. Conceived as a 'zen-like' space, the courtyard comprises a square of mown grass, a pool and a single Persian ironwood tree. The master bedroom is located at the western end of the plan, set approximately one metre t> inhabit I 07