Penrith – Residential

Remodeling and Extension of a Bungalow

Initial Survey – Spring 2018; Completion – Spring 2020.

Our client wished to remodel their existing two-bedroomed detached house to add a further bedroom and create a new, lighter, airier kitchen/ dining area, with vaulted ceilings and a glazed screen giving view towards the Lake District fells.  In addition, the existing front door was tucked away on a side elevation and the client was keen to make it more prominent and create a porch.

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The scheme required the demolition of an existing attached garage, re-working of the external spaces and parking to give room for the extension that contained the kitchen/ diner, a larger entrance hall, external storage and a utility room.  The existing kitchen was re-purposed as a new bedroom with the addition of an en-suite shower room and a large opening was created between the existing living room and new kitchen/diner to create a large, well-lit open plan living area.

The unique topography of the property allowed for the creation of a spacious terrace accessed by sliding/folding screens from the kitchen that gave tremendous views and allowed indoor/outdoor living. 

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The Station Inn, Kirkpatrick Fleming

Partial Demolition, Remodeling & Extension for The Cove Estate

Initial Survey – February 2018; Completion – Spring 2019

Our client wished to substantially remodel the Station Inn in Kirkpatrick Fleming, to provide a refreshed and modern pub and restaurant to serve the local community and holiday park.  Our client runs several businesses in the local area, including the Bruce’s Cave Holiday Park, and is committed to supporting local facilities and the local community.  He frequently locates and rescues older, endangered buildings across southern Scotland and northern England to redevelop and bring back into beneficial use; he took on the closed Station Inn for refurbishment. 

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The building consisted of the existing pub and restaurant occupying several rooms of the ground floor of an original coaching inn, a first floor flat accessed by an external fire escape stair, a small kitchen extension attached to the rear and a separate stores building to the rear, linked together by a steel-framed garage block.  The facilities were undersized and very outdated for the modern standards of food preparation, dining, and socialising.  Our brief was to produce design options to increase the size of the dining area, kitchens, stores, toilet facilities and improve the quality of and access to the first floor flat. 

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Several schemes were considered, including the addition of a further flat to first floor.  The final scheme comprised a large, open-plan restaurant bar, large kitchen/prep area and linked stores, cellar, expanded toilet facilities, all made accessible for disabled users, a remodeled first floor flat with internal stair access created from the former toilet block, expanded beer garden and revised car park.

Aditus designed the scheme and made the subsequent, successful planning and building warrant applications.

The client separately commissioned a superb sculpture of a ‘Stephenson’s Rocket’ steam engine which took pride of place outside.