This was a fantastic opportunity to design a series of spaces the family could use all year round.
I exploited the site's gradient to deliver a garden that feels both dramatic and effortless. The slope became the generator for every major decision: the natural swimming pool with an infinity edge that visually extends the landscape, drawing the eye down through terraced lawn, borders, down to the wildflower meadow and orchard below. These layered levels borrow the landscape, create purposeful views, private corners without heavy handed engineering.
Cotswolds Coach House
Existing Setting
Master Layout Plan
Planting Plan (Front of House)
Existing
Visulisation Render (Terracing)
Visulisation Render (Lighting)
Visulisation Render (Driveway leading to annex and garages)
Visulisation Render (Driveway & Parking Area)
Visulisation Render (Drive & Parking Area) (Lighting)
Existing View
Visulisation Render (realigned driveway and soft and structural planting)
Visulisation Render (Lighting)
Visulisation Render (Lighting)
Visulisation Render (Path from front door leading to the Natural Swimming Pool and lower terraces)
Existing (summer house and entertainment barn)
Visulisation Render (Lawn Terrace)
Visulisation Render (Lawn Terrace)
Existing View (from the summer house and barn)
Visulisation Render (Natural Pool, Sun Deck outside existing entertainment barn)
Visulisation Render (Natural Pool, Sun Deck) (Lighting)
Visulisation Render (Natural Pool, Terrace in front of existing summer house)
Visulisation Render (Natural Pool, Infinity Edge - View across the valley enhanced)
Visulisation Render (Natural Pool, Infinity Edge)
Visulisation Render (Natural Pool, Infinity Edge) (Lighting)
Visulisation Render (Natural Pool, Infinity Edge with view across the terraced lawn)
Visulisation Render (Natural Pool, Infinity Edge)
I chose a rich, textural, contrasting palette for the terrace planting scheme. The formal lawn provides an open, usable space; herbaceous borders add season long interest and structural rhythm. While the meadow introduces a naturalistic and biodiverse element that softens and merges the garden into the surrounding countryside.
A vegetable garden sits adjacent to a newly conceived orchard with local varieties of fruit trees, helping blend the garden from the more formal terraces into the fields beyond.
Access and utility are resolved with discretion. The new parking area is screened from the house and key vistas by layered planting and subtle earth shaping, but remains straightforward and legible for everyday use and deliveries to the other buildings. Driveway planting around the house is deliberately designed to soften approach routes, maintain and enhance views, while masking service areas without compromising access routes
Social spaces were carefully sited to maximise use and atmosphere. A sun terrace and barbecue entertaining space sit adjacent to the pool, taking advantage of the afternoon sun and the calming energy of water. Hard landscaping surfaces, scale and planting here were chosen to feel intimate yet connected to the larger composition, while recognising the history of the site and local materials.
The visualisations on this page demonstrate the intention: how the pool edge highlights the beautiful expanse of sky and tree tops, how the terraces read as a series of rooms, how the productive and ornamental planting sit side by side, while access is discreet but uncompromised. The result is a garden that uses its topography to its absolute advantage.