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La Casabie

A wooden clad single storey dwelling situated next to Bellozanne Abbey

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La Casabie

The National Trust is exploring the possibility of bringing a vacant one-bedroom dwelling in the grounds of Bellozanne Abbey, La Casabie, back into use to create a desirable one-bedroom unit to create additional income.

The project aims to explore the use of a timber construction that could be part prefabricated and crafted to provide a sustainable low carbon dwelling, sympathetic to its surroundings and listed buildings such as the Grade 2 listed Bellozanne Abbey.

La Casabie was built as an annex to Bellozanne Abbey and is a single storey rectangular plan building with a pitched corrugated metal roof and black horizonal timber boarded walls, sitting on a raised brick plinth. The existing shrubs provide privacy almost making La Casabie invisible.

The Proposal

It is proposed to retain a rectangular plan rotated 90 degrees in relation with Bellozanne Abbey on the same orientation and roughly above the existing plan.

The mature trees and bushes are to be retained to maintain privacy . The proposed dwelling will replicate the existing form of the black timber single storey rectangular plan with a pitched roof.

There will be openings in the south gable and to the west, and only a high-level opening looking toward Bellozanne Abbey to maintain privacy to both properties. A further single storey wing to the west, will be added to provide additional living space.

The interiors are proposed to be open to the roof structure above with rooflights enhancing the spatial quality within the space.