NEW HOUSING DEVELOPMENT, SOMERSET

The Temple Inn was a disused pub at the historic heart of Temple Cloud: This development has restored and reopened the pub and provided ten hotel rooms and nine houses around a communal landscape, bringing new life to the village centre.

A simple two and three storey terrace of five houses frames the communal garden whilst a pair of south facing, semi-detached three storey houses faces Temple Inn Lane. At the heart of the site a historic barn has been converted to provide a further pair of houses.

The design includes traditional brick reveals to rubble elevations and dressed stone surrounds to brick cottages echoing the converted barn with projecting cast stone surrounds used on the new houses providing a subtle contrast to the brick elevations.

Generous recessed front doors create depth in the elevations and downpipes are set in brick recesses. Internally the units are spacious with living space taken up into the roof spaces.