Creative Fun - How Would You Extend This?

[sa_20v]

Hi all, I'm struggling for inspiration this afternoon, and wondered if the mighty PH collective had any ideas on how I might extend this property - I'm finding this a real challenge given the existing roof design.

Front:


Back:


It's currently a four bed (plot around 55 foot by 200) with kitchen and utility room at the front, living areas at the back. It suffers badly from damp and the garage needs to be replaced (it's freestanding - and currently too narrow for most modern cars).

I need to:

Rebuild garage (currently single but fits two cars end to end) and widen
Remove flat roofs (currently leak)
Extend the front of the house, moving all areas inline with one another (flattening off) whilst extending over garage area

I would like to:

Remove low headroom (given the roof) on the first floor by moving roof higher
Extend ground floor at rear at later date

[Herbs]

Could you mirror the rhs on a smaller width above the garage, move the front door to be level with front wall/garage door and put balcony roof terrace on the flat roof above the front door area?

[ColinM50]

If it were me, I'd widen the garage to the boundary or at least fifteen feet if you've got the space can. Then take the front of the garage back in line with the existing front door and extend the roof line to match. At the back, bring the garage back quite a bit more than double length and have say a utility room or mud room there with access from the garden. Extend the roof line to a similar style to the existing front roof so over the garage put a pitch roof, longways on and link in to the existing pitched roof. Then if you've still got money left, make both roof's front and back dormer windows as per existing.

[ColinM50]

seems me and Herbs were typing the same at the same time?

[52classic]

I'd start by rebuilding the garage, wider and with the front pushed back in line with the existing front door.

Next extend the roof, including the dormer, over the garage. If height is a problem it may look more 'modest' if you make it a Norfolk Hip.

At the back I would extend the garage of course, but I would also expand it across that doorway so that the innermost car space is wide enough to work on the car.

Then extend the left side of the rear, under to pitched part, out into the garden, re-using the patio doors, again a Norfolk Hip might help to 'ground it' on the site.

Not sure about that rear dormer. I wondered whether the rear extension at first floor level may be better as a Mansard roof although the proportions of those is sometimes difficult to get right.

Might be good to see the floor plans also, since that was originally a bungalow you probably suffer corridors between rooms and the best advice I was ever given on this subject was "Plan the layout to maximise enjoyment of the place and the outside will always look good."

[shimmey69]

if you are looking to do major work on it you may well find it a lot cheaper and easier to flatten it a start again.

that way you can build it exactly how you want rather than having to comprise.

[Muncher]

shimmey69 said:

if you are looking to do major work on it you may well find it a lot cheaper and easier to flatten it a start again.

that way you can build it exactly how you want rather than having to comprise.

That was my first thought...

[Job38]

If you go new build route you also save 20%VAT !