Extension

Our cottage in Brading is a small end of terrace - a terrace in four groups of two, two or three feet apart one from another, with one hip to the roof of each of the two ends, so making a reasonably harmonious whole. Built into the side of a hill, so not much scope for extensions out back.

But our cottage was OK as it could build a lean-to on to the open side for a bathroom and a new front door - the old front door opening direct into the only living room. Brought up to scratch in the 1950's by replacing the old corrugated iron with corrugated asbestos. Fine stuff, left alone will last forever.

Plus a Palladian touch in that they have left the old front door out front, untouched as far as the outside world is concerned, leaving the overall, external design more or less unblemished, just blocking it up from the inside, from where one is hard put to see the joins.