A tight hipped roof opened up into a full-width dormer, doubling the usable floor and flooding it with light.
The existing hipped roof gave plenty of footprint but barely any usable height. The answer was a full rear dormer, squaring off the slope to create a proper room with standing height across its width.
A project that runs through structural, roofing and external-finish trades in one continuous build.
With the roof stripped, we set out new stud partitions and built the dormer structure over a steel beam, a clean OSB-sheathed box wrapped in a breathable membrane, with openings formed for glazing front and back.
A bank of rooflights in the retained slope brings light deep into the new floor.
Inside, a steel beam carries the new roof while triple Velux rooflights pour daylight across the room. Outside, the dormer is clad in low-maintenance anthracite composite with matching windows, a crisp, contemporary finish that sits comfortably on a traditional roof.
New stud partitions set out the room within the opened-up roof space.
Steel beam, dormer box and rooflight openings formed and weatherproofed.
Composite cladding and matching windows give a crisp, low-maintenance finish.
