Curved zinc-roofed glazed extension on a flint house – Glazed Garden Extension, Cley by Big Sky Construction

Extension · Cley next the Sea · 2022–2025

Glazed Garden Extension, Cley

A glazed extension with a sweeping curved zinc roof, opening a flint house onto a sandstone pool terrace.

This flint house was extended along its garden side with a long, glazed room under a curved standing-seam zinc roof. We opened up the existing flint wall on new steel beams, built the curved roof structure from shaped timber rafters, and finished it in zinc to give the extension its distinctive sweeping profile.

Floor-to-ceiling glazing runs the full length of the room, looking out over the pool. Inside, we laid terracotta floor tiles, and outside we laid a sandstone terrace with new retaining walls, linking the house, the extension and the garden.

It's a good example of how a contemporary extension can sit comfortably against a traditional north Norfolk house.

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