Private House 144
Location: Worlsey
LPA: Salford
Context: Suburban
Nature: New build dwelling
Status: Completed
Client: Private
A new-build six-bedroom dwelling arranged over four floors, replacing an existing 1960s house. The site is located off a private residential road lined with mature trees and overlooks a golf course.
Paul Ashton Architects worked closely with teh client and Salford Local Planning Authority, establishing a strong working relationship through multiple rounds of pre-application design development. The final design emerged after an extended period of close collaboration.
The client's brief informed the massing strategy, which centres on a two-storey gabled form bridging over two distinct volumes at ground and lower ground levels. These volumes accommodate the main living and entertainment spaces and are set at an angle to one another in response to the site's topography. The entrance lobby and vertical circulation core sit between them. The upper gabled form houses the bedroom suites and private quarters, and includes an open gable with a deep reveal framing views across the golf course.
Paul Ashton Architects employed an architectural language that references traditional dwelling forms and materials whilst using contemporary building technologies to create a distinctive, prestige dwelling that raises the standard of domestic architecture in the area. The proposed building palette uses traditional materials to create a crisp contrast between areas of white render, slate and black 'roman' bricks.
