Appleton Manor Pool House

Appleton, United Kingdom

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Appleton Manor Pool House

Appleton, United Kingdom

Firm

Stephen Marshall (Urbanism) Ltd

Type

Residential › Private House

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2013

SIZE

1000 sqft - 3000 sqft

Photos

Richard Bryant (7), Liz Eve (1)

Appleton Manor near Abbingdon is mentioned in Sir Nikolaus Pevsner's 'The Buildings of England' and has been continuously inhabited since the year 1200. The building is listed Grade 2 star.

The owners have a large young family and wanted a pool and pool house to be situated near to the manor house. As well as pool activities the new building had to accommodate storage for garden machines and kitchen/utility space. The estate has recently been re-planned to a design by Arne Maynard and the pool and pool house are set within a newly formed 'green room' within this plan.

The building is in two parts. The spaces closest to the manor house are clad in stone and have pitched red tile roofs to match adjacent Victorian cottages. This part of the building completes the missing side of a new kitchen yard. The space facing the pool is set within a glazed wall of continuous pivoting doors with a flat aluminium 'nose come' roof above. The entrance to the pool house from the manor is through a slot in the stone kitchen yard wall.

The building's two parts address the owners main concern of having the new building as close as possible without visually impacting on the manor house as well as making a new modern building that adopts the latest energy saving technology.

The pool house interior and external pool surround are all clad with local lime stone and the aluminium poolside roof slides towards the pool to allow sunlight to the back of the plan as well as creating an overhang to the glazing for shade.

New and old technologies are adopted in the design with air source heat pumps used to heat the pool and building and a log burner stove using logs sourced from the estate.