28-09-2025 12:00 via dezeen.com

James Grayley Architecture finishes Suffolk cottage extension with "hairy shingle exterior"

London studio James Grayley Architecture has used red bricks, oak shingles and terracotta floors to give a rustic character to its extension of Church Cottage, an old farmhouse in Suffolk, UK.
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.
James Grayley Architecture has added a shingle-clad extension to a Grade II-listed cottage
Following a further extension by the clients
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