Holme Lodge Farm

This photograph illustrates the central hall of this new Country Dwelling from a position 70% of the way up the staircase. The ground floor of this dwelling was created using reclaimed 1942 Western Red Cedar recovered from a dancefloor of a Canadian NAAFI mess building from a redundant local airbase. The handrail and the supporting cast iron splidles were sourced from a Victorian Hotel that was recently demolished in Bradford, West Yorkshire and the staircase was designed to ensure the stepped string balustrade fitted a new timber staircase, which required all 393 cast iron spindles to be increased in length to comply with current Building Regulations. A total amalgam of reclaimed parts integrated into a completely new dwelling! Stephen Samuel RIBA