The Dell_

The Dell opens a stone house in Holywell Green, Halifax, towards its rural setting. The rear extension creates a new living space shaped around light, landscape and the long views beyond the garden. Low against the original house, it stretches horizontally across the rear. Stone remains. Glass takes over.

The first-floor windows above set a tight ceiling for the architecture below. The roof needed pitch without height, depth without cutting across the existing openings. Its scale and form also required a householder planning application to Calderdale Council, bringing the relationship between the extension, the existing house and its rural setting into focus.

The roof rises from the garden elevation before flattening as it meets the house, slipping neatly beneath the windows above. Dark-framed glazing runs almost the full width of the rear, wrapping around the corner and pulling the landscape across two elevations. Rooflights cut into the deeper part of the plan, bringing daylight from above. Stone bookends the glass and ties the new structure back to the original house.

Natural stone gives weight. Dark aluminium draws a finer line. Full-height glass brings the Calderdale landscape straight into the room. Outside, the glazing meets a broad stone terrace before the garden falls away towards the fields beyond. Above it all, the pitched-to-flat roof resolves the difficult junction with a single change in geometry — keeping the extension low, wide and open.