AA Residence
This project replaces an old single storey bungalow of masonry construction in the suburbs of Limavady with a new warm two bedroom home future proofed to provide additional bedroom space in the roof.
- AA Residence
- New Build Dwelling
- Limavady Co. Derry / L’Derry
- Completed March 2021
The decision to replace the existing dwelling was made to ensure that the final product was warm and efficient complete with a mechanical ventilation and heat recovery system. The timber frame construction made it quick to get covered over and allow follow on trades to start work.
The plan layout flips convention by locating the main open plan living dining area to the rear where it benefits from the views over the terrace and falling gardens to the open countryside beyond. This creates a sense of openness and connection with nature on a quite restricted and enclosed suburban site.
For this small church, the conversion to a domestic function seemed natural and uncontentious. The scale of the original church building was domestic and the decoration modest. The new function also modest and singular in purpose in that it is for a new family or people to live together in “under one roof”. Tattykeeran Church may have become simply 44 Tattykeeran Road but it is still there for those who were baptised or married in it to see and we hope it has been presented in such a way that the sensibilities of those people and the significance of those community and life events are not slighted but preserved. Certainly the comments and words from many interested visitors and parishoners to the project during construction (among them the Sunday school teacher, the sextons son) would indicate that it has been a success in this respect. A further gesture and nod of approval has come from vestry committee of the surviving Colebrooke Estate church who have reintrusted us with the original bell (it is suitably minus the clapper) made in Murphys Foundry in Dublin.