Extensions and alterations – Halstead, Essex.

Located just outside the Essex town of Halstead, this renovated and extended detached timber framed cottage provides family accommodation comprising, open oak porch, entrance hall, open plan kitchen/dining/breakfast area, sitting room, study, cloaks room, garden room and music room on the ground floor and four bedrooms with a family bathroom and en-suite bathroom to the Master Bedroom on the first floor. A detached oak framed two bay cart shed was also provided. The cottage is not Listed.

The proposed extension doubled the floor area of the original two up, two down cottage, with a central entrance door and staircase.

The extended cottage is finished in a selection of painted render and horizontal timber boarding on a facing brickwork plinth, all under a traditional steeply pitched plain clay tilled roof. The windows are a selection of painted double glazed timber casements.