Middle Avenue
by Rural Office
Client Private
Award RIBA South East Award 2023, RIBA National Award 2023 (sponsored by Forterra), shortlisted for RIBA House of the Year 2023
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Middle Avenue sits on a corner plot in a garden suburb of Farnham. Though it has developed in more recent times in ad-hoc styles, there is an underlying arts and crafts vernacular that is very much in presence. Built for the clients and their grown-up children as an adaptable family home, Middle Avenue has been meticulously researched and there is much evidence of an affinity for the late 19th-century period of architecture.
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Read the full citation or find out more about this shortlisted project from RIBA Journal.
Contractor Colemans Building Company
Structural Engineer Fold Consulting Engineers
Quantity Surveyor / Cost Consultant Martin Warren Associates
Energy Performance Assessment Bullocks Consulting
Landscape Rural Office with Transform Landscape Designs
Gross internal area in m2 285
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