The Haymes is a large, Grade II listed, country house built on the side of Cleeve Hill in Gloucestershire. The original house was started in the mid 18th century and was sensitively extended in the early 20th century and again, in a less appropriate way, in the latter half of the 20th century. Both of these extensions continued with a similar use of materials. In 2006 we were appointed to reconfigure the house to suit the needs of the new owners. This reconfiguration also required some

modest extensions, which helped to better connect zones of the existing house. The extensions and remodelling of the existing had the added benefit of giving more coherence to the external form of the building. The new additions continued to use the existing pallet of materials, but used them in a more contemporary way.