Bates House

Client	Mr & Mrs A Bates
Address	Suggetts
Address	Aston Tirrold
Time scale	2000
Budget	£80K
Restoration and conversion of a listed house. The former 'shop', which receives afternoon sun, makes a much better kitchen.

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Suggetts is a 17/18th century listed building built of oak which was extended, first by the Victorians to make a shop to the front and secondly in the 1980s to add extra bedrooms, a bathroom et al into the extensive rear garden - which includes a large wooden barn.		A feasibility plan showed that the former shop, which receives the afternoon sun when opened up to the front courtyard, would make a much better kitchen. As a result an old, small window was replaced with large arched doors, designed to match the windows of the original house.

The clients, a manager of an international computer company and his wife who is training to be a landscape gardener, wanted to restore the original house and add a conservatory.		Computer aided photomontage techniques were successfully employed to examine this possibility and to design the conservatory.