An Oak Frame Cottage with Cellar

Graham Mayhew and Penny Brown’s dream of downsizing didn’t go quite to plan when they built an oak frame cottage – complete with cellar – larger than their old home.

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An Oak Frame Cottage with Cellar

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Construction system Oak frame
Architectural features Cellar
County West Sussex

“I have spent 20 years of my life on planning committees, yet I still wasn’t quite prepared for the pitfalls of building my own home,” reflects Graham Mayhew, a county magistrate and Mediaeval buildings expert from Sussex. Graham is, however, currently sitting comfortably with his partner, Penny Brown, in the spacious, modern oak kitchen of their beautiful new home in a rural town set just a few miles back from the Sussex coast. Golden light from the sunny summer’s afternoon spills through the house from the well glazed elevations, and it becomes apparent that Graham is now fully prepared to be ruefully philosophical about what he has darkly referred to as the ‘pitfalls’ of undertaking a self-build project.


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Author
Greg Cook
Photographer
Bruce Hemming
Issue date:
June 2010
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