Arts & Crafts Style House Sussex

An Architect & Project Manager collaboration have just completed a newbuild Arts & Craft style house in West Sussex. Project Manager Chris Hales and Architect son Jason Hales have designed and built the project in the Arts & Crafts style and Sussex vernacular, using a combination of flint and brick walling. Of particular architectural interest are the ‘Eyebrow windows’.

Energy efficiency has been an important aspect of the project, with supplementary insulation in the walls and roof and triple glazing throughout. Renewable technologies, including solar panels and air source heat pump, have also been installed.

Green Building Store’s PERFORMANCE triple glazed windows & French doors were specified as a cost-effective triple glazing option that was able to meet client and various technical requirements for the project.

Glazing bars & ‘Eyebrow’ windows

The project required interstitial glazing bars (avoiding the ‘parallax effect’, where gaps in the glazing bars can be viewed side on), egress hinges on windows and the ability to create a triple glazed version of the ‘Eyebrow’ windows in the roof.

PERFORMANCE triple glazed timber windows & doors

Chris Hales went to see the windows for the project being made at the PERFORMANCE factory in Lithuania.

The PERFORMANCE factory in Lithuania were able to make the eyebrow windows by directly transferring the architect’s CAD drawings into their fabrication & cutting machinery to ensure absolute accuracy and correct sizing.