Greystone

A life and legacy in stone: This new family dwelling will sit on a site with a deep personal and historical connection to our client.

The Cotswold National Landscape Management Plan recognises that one of the main economic activities that influence the landscape within the National Landscape is quarrying and the extracted stone imbues built form with a strong sense of place.

The fundamental design concept of this proposal reflects a desire to create a quarry restoration which utilises the quarry’s form, character and materials to produce a design of exceptional quality which uniquely reflects its quarry location. This broad approach has enabled the proposal to reflect the preponderance of quarries throughout the Cotswolds AONB and the contribution these make to the area’s defining character and its built vernacular.

For this reason, the starting point for the architectural concept for the dwelling is a raw block of stone, which is worked from its raw cleaved outer shell to split, sawn & flailed treatments on deep incisions into the block to carved and polished tactile treatments of stone within the interior.

Thanks to a fantastic team effort by Axiom Planning, DLA Landscape Architecture, Cotswold Natural Stone, a host of other consultants and experts as well as the input and ultimate support from the Gloucestershire Design Panel and officers at Tewkesbury Borough Council that have helped inform this magnificent scheme.