The Gooseberry Cottage extension was based on taking the elements that make up a historic cottage and reinterpreting in a way that is relevant to contemporary architecture. The result is a subtle but distinctly contemporary addition to the original cottage that sits harmoniously with the original house. Traditional cottage features such as stone walls and a pitched, tiled roof have been carefully detailed with expressed joints and zinc edges so as to illustrate that contemporary architecture and cottage vernacular need not be mutually exclusive.