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The extension features a basement swimming pool
London practice Jonathan Tuckey Design has been given the green light for a minimalist hempcrete extension to a Victorian house in Cambridge.
The 500sq m extension in the city’s De Freville conservation area consists of a series of ground floor rooms leading down to a basement containing a swimming pool.
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The two-storey structure will be built using hempcrete to compliment the grey stone villa
Project architect Jasmine Low said hempcrete was chosen for its sustainability and to echo the existing Victorian villa’s grey stone.
Steve Webb, director at the project’s structural engineer Webb Yates, said that the most striking part of the design was the basement’s plan form.