Innovative placement of new classical country house in disused railway embankment clinches NPPF Para 55 planning permission.

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The decision to site the house so that it completes the line of the disused railway embankment is a bold and innovative one. The result will be unique and some onlookers may be disturbed by it, but that is what makes it interesting

Positive use of the embankment to ground the house in the landscape, the house becomes an integral part of an existing linear landscape feature, and is fully assimilated into the existing woodland skyline.
The house shelters within the embankment utilizing the strong east and west axis along the railway corridor in views from the first floor rooms.
The house enjoys views across the landscape to both sides of the embankment, with fine open views to the south to the rising ground of Bush Hill, and restricted view over the newly enclosed paddocks to the north.
All out buildings, drives and services are kept to the north of the embankment, and are largely hidden from view from the wider landscape surrounding the property.

“A left-over and forgotten piece of industrial heritage has become part of a wider vision and given new meaning by the addition of a striking house.”

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The house nestles comfortably in the wooded embankment enjoying fine open views to both north and south, and uniquely from the first floor rooms, a long, linear view east and west along the old railway-line”.