{"id":654,"date":"2025-09-28T10:00:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T10:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scientificmediagroup.com\/?p=654"},"modified":"2025-10-02T16:13:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T16:13:30","slug":"james-grayley-architecture-finishes-suffolk-cottage-extension-with-hairy-shingle-exterior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scientificmediagroup.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/28\/james-grayley-architecture-finishes-suffolk-cottage-extension-with-hairy-shingle-exterior\/","title":{"rendered":"James Grayley Architecture finishes Suffolk cottage extension with “hairy shingle exterior”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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London studio James Grayley Architecture has used red bricks<\/a>, oak shingles<\/a> and terracotta<\/a> floors to give a rustic character to its extension<\/a> of Church Cottage, an old farmhouse<\/a> in Suffolk<\/a>, UK.<\/span><\/p>\n

Located near the town of Eye, the existing Grade II-listed dwelling was originally built as two 18th-century labourers’ dwellings, which were then conjoined in the 1990s.<\/p>\n

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James Grayley Architecture has added a shingle-clad extension to a Grade II-listed cottage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Following a further extension by the clients in 2011, the dwelling was left with “tiny cellular rooms and eccentric circulation” that needed resolving, according to James Grayley Architecture<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Alongside the unification of its different elements, the studio added a wing at the home’s northwestern end, raised on a plinth of Suffolk red bricks. It is finished with what the studio described as a “hairy shingle exterior” that nods to the cottage’s thatched roof.<\/p>\n

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Suffolk red bricks form the base of the extension<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“An extension built by the clients provided much-needed new bathroom facilities, a small entrance hall and utility, but the diminutive dwelling still had no space large enough to accommodate a dining table, or to allow friends and extended family to gather,” director James Grayley told Dezeen.<\/p>\n

“The primary strategy was to carefully repurpose and extend these spaces and to better connect the interior with the wider landscape for the gardener, landscape painter and printmaker clients,” he added.<\/p>\n

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Skylights puncture a sloped ceiling<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The primary role of the extension is to provide space for dining and gathering. It contains a single living, dining and kitchen area with a brick hearth in one corner and a sloping white ceiling punctured by skylights.<\/p>\n

Where this new addition meets the previous extension, rooms have been reordered to provide a kitchen pantry, while the original dining and living areas in the historic cottage have been converted into a study and snug.<\/p>\n