Sullingstead

Sullingstead is an important early Edwin Lutyens house. The new owners engaged Lutyen’s specialist architect Frances and the late Michael Edwards to oversee the refurbishment and additions including a large swimming pool building, collectors garage and replacement kitchen roof. Initially we were engaged to design and build an oak frame roof over the refurbished kitchen, this had to meet high standards of joinery to the hand planed and oiled frame with hand forged tie rods and coopered turned columns. We went on to construct the highly detailed splayed high level oak framed bay window and it’s roof over interlocking shaped beams and turned columns to the rear of the swimming pool facing the rill.

We built the hand moulded crown post roof over the collectors garage, as well as the external turned columns, plates and beams to the pool and garage entrances. Restoring the original entrance loggia to the front of the house from surviving black and white photographs of the original was a great challenge! We built the whole roof in one piece in the workshop and delivered it whole, lifting it onto the turned columns with a crane in a few hours so that it could be protected from the weather immediately to help keep the oak sarking boards dry, clean and fee of tannin stains.

Architect –Frances & Michael Edwards
Structural Engineer – Paul Carpenter Associates
Client –Private