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Bungalow- north facing - busy road

  • 23-02-2021 1:54pm
    #1
    irishguy19772
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    Have a half acre site that is south facing a busy road.
    It is a nice rectangular site going backwards - width small but long
    I am doing up plans for a house that somehow makes use of the sun rising to east of house, coming fro the road during the day and setting in the west

    How can I get around having kitchen living area , which I was hoping to be vaulted ceilings, at the front of house. My issue would be privacy. Same with a west facing terrace at side of house for the evening.

    Any one come up against south facing house against a busy road?


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  • #2
    Calahonda52
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    keep well back from the road, plant a screen fence, noise would worry me more than some trucker seeing my dinner

    “I can’t pay my staff or mortgage with instagram likes”.



  • #3
    irishguy19772
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 422 ✭✭irishguy19772


    Thanks. Its not a main road but a busy country back road. Yes to keeping well back for privacy/noise reasons though


  • #4
    fits
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    I’d consult an architect. We had a similar dilemma and are really happy with solution.


  • #5
    irishguy19772
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 422 ✭✭irishguy19772


    Thanks. Am going to. Did you tilt your house


  • #6
    fits
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    irishguy19772 wrote: »
    Thanks. Am going to. Did you tilt your house

    It was a different situation. Refurbing and extending cottage that was perpendicular to road with gable right on road. Wanted to build extension in one location but with existing site entrance would have had no privacy. So we moved entrance and now have a private little enclosed south facing courtyard with high fence shielding from road. It wasn’t a solution I would have thought of with topography of site but it works really well. Riai architects can be well worth money for design phase.


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