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This garden room was built on a section of disused railway line at the end of the client’s garden. Nothing quite prepared us for the challenges of digging foundations into compacted Victorian train track. After an initial site visit and a chat about gardening, it wasn’t long before we’d shared a joint love of Prospect Cottage – the fisherman’s house in Dungeness, lived in by Derek Jarman. And so the brief was set there to try and incorporate some of the features of that iconic coastal cottage in this garden room. In-house joinery allowed us to maximise light coming into the space, with bespoke eave windows and four leaf bifold doors – all in bright yellow. When installed against the black larch cladding, the distinctive contrast of Prospect Cottage came into being. A sedum roof softened the edges of the build into the surrounding greenery.