Architecture
Amongst all the essential key elements that go towards creating the unique nature of the project, the most fundamental has to be the architecture.
The design and traditional method of construction of each individual building in the project relevant to its Historical time period would have to be of paramount concern, in order to achieve the level of aesthetic detailing required to re-establish the Historic beauty of that specific piece of architecture.
We are extremely fortunate to be able to access archive photographs and illustrations of local vernacular architecture and village life stretching back to the 15th Century, from which to draw inspiration. This gives us plenty of ideas to start forming detailed drawings and plans, with which the project would start to develop its own character as a village.
Could this local image of Tollgate cottage at Salehurst, be the inspiration for cottage number 22 on the site plan ?
The design of the buildings would be allocated between three or four architectural practices, which only specialise in the building, repair, and restoration of Historic buildings.
This would ensure a rich and varied design, sympathetic to the delicate nature of the project.
They would then oversee their particular projects through to completion, and together with the project's management team provide updates to the Parish at regular intervals.
The architectural design isn't just limited to Elizabethan oak timber frames, cob, limewashed render, brick, stone, oak and painted weatherboard, tile hung elevations, thatch, and peg tiles all play their part, these materials would ideally be locally sourced wherever possible and along with reclaimed building material's would aesthetically 'soften' the appearance of the buildings.
In addition, the possibility exists of purchasing ancient oak framed buildings, disassembled, numbered and ready for re-erection.
So as the newly planted trees and hedgerows around the site grow and blossom over time, the cottages and houses mellow down with the passing years,
therefore having the unique ability to nestle and blend into the landscape at St. Francis Fields in a way that modern housing stock never could.
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