Rose Gardens: St Dogmaels Conservation Area

Rose Gardens is a natural and low energy new build home on a disused garden site in the beautiful conservation area of St Dogmaels in Pembrokeshire. The house is simple and efficient in plan but beautifully crafted internally to provide a set of connected, open plan spaces with amazing views from the first floor living areas across the town and estuary. The house is built form a passive certified modular straw bale panel system rendered internally with natural lime with low energy building service discreetly concealed within the construction. The extensively planted market garden conceals rainwater harvesting tanks and sustainable drainage system incorporating a nature pond creating a truly sustainable and low impact garden?. This is a very modern and low energy home but it does not feel like a new build when you step inside. The client is an experienced builder and has fashioning a wonderfully eclectic and rich set of rooms from a beautiful mix of antique furniture, found objects and re-purposed items. The kitchen and much of the built in furniture has been salvaged from a large second hand kitchen bought online and creatively divided up between rooms. Elsewhere Moroccan rugs and traditional Welsh fabrics sit together on modern sofas and antique dressers. The back door includes a passive certified cat flap so even the cat can be carbon neutral!