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St James Cottage
St James Cottage
Milton Abbas, United Kingdom
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St James Cottage
Milton Abbas, United Kingdom
Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2025
SIZE
3000 sqft - 5000 sqft
BUDGET
$100K - 500K
St James Cottage is a charming characterful 300 year old thatched cottage in the iconic Georgian village of Milton Abbas in Dorset. The original cob cottage had become tired, damp, and starved of natural light. It needed a thoughtful, sensitive design approach to bring it back to life.
Working closely with our clients, we reimagined and extended the property to create a warm, uplifting four-bedroom home. The design enhances day-to-day living with brighter spaces, improved comfort, and a stronger connection to the character that makes the cottage so special.
To create a more spacious home for our clients it was clear an extension would be essential. We removed the tired single storey lean-to at the rear and introduced a new L-shaped extension that now provides a spacious, light-filled kitchen, dining room and lounge.
The extension settles comfortably into the site’s sloping topography, with the far end partially set into the hillside. A green sedum roof above the kitchen, combined with its careful positioning, allows the structure to read as part of the garden rather than a building when viewed from the footpath leading from the adjoining Grade II * St James Church to the graveyard.
To bring light into the deep floor plan of the new extension, two new roof lights are concealed within timber planting beds set into the green roof, so as to appear part of the garden.
Working closely with our clients, we reimagined and extended the property to create a warm, uplifting four-bedroom home. The design enhances day-to-day living with brighter spaces, improved comfort, and a stronger connection to the character that makes the cottage so special.
To create a more spacious home for our clients it was clear an extension would be essential. We removed the tired single storey lean-to at the rear and introduced a new L-shaped extension that now provides a spacious, light-filled kitchen, dining room and lounge.
The extension settles comfortably into the site’s sloping topography, with the far end partially set into the hillside. A green sedum roof above the kitchen, combined with its careful positioning, allows the structure to read as part of the garden rather than a building when viewed from the footpath leading from the adjoining Grade II * St James Church to the graveyard.
To bring light into the deep floor plan of the new extension, two new roof lights are concealed within timber planting beds set into the green roof, so as to appear part of the garden.
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