New House, Cambridge This is a new house in a street of detached houses of varying styles in a conservation area in West Cambridge. The client, a Cambridge don, was 80 when she commissioned the house, which was designed around her specific needs. The plan is square and compact for economy while the section was determined to accommodate rights of light restrictions and to allow sun to penetrate all the habitable rooms of the house and to give them a generous height. Her living quarters are all on the ground floor and designed for her use for many years to come. The hall, study and conservatory are central to the plan and provide separation and privacy for her bedroom and bathroom on one side of the house and the kitchen dining and living living room on the other. Construction is insulated cavity brick with a timber and fibre slated roof. Heating is by means of gas-fired hot-water radiators. Client Eleanor Dobson Date completed 1994 Construction Cost £120,000 Consultants Quantity Surveyor: Brian Davis and Associates Structural Engineer: Peter Dann and Partners Ltd Contractor H.Holland Ltd Photographer Peter Cook, VIEW Back to top