Ladderstile House - is a large contemporary eco friendly house directly bordering Richmond Park and adjacent to the Ladderstile Gate. The land is the last remaining pocket of a once larger site associated with the original Ladderstile House, and retains an historic right to ‘ride out’ across the park holding a key to a private gate associated only with the house.
Arranged around an internally landscaped courtyard, the home’s volumes open to external areas creating a unified residence with a direct relationship from inside to out.
” We wanted to retain a sense of the history and grandeur of the old house’s sttanding whilst combining fabulous and fun design with top eco-credentials “.
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The People’s Lomg. Henry VIII believed the hunting grounds of Richmond should be ’shared’ with the commoners:Â Â not so Charles I, who in 1637, wailed teh leafy 2,500 acres to create a Royal hunting park. Never a monarch in touch with his people, the move was characteristically unpopular with his subjects, who insisted on exercising their prescribed right of way to gather ‘firewood’. Charles reluctantly erected six ladders at the walls - the ‘Ladderstiles’, which permitted the locals to roam in the Park. After centuries of suspicion over countinuing rights, locals allowed the ladderstiles to be removed in favour of gates, but the last to go was at Coombe gate, known today as Ladderstile Gate.
At some time in between, when a manor house was built on the Ladderstile approach, Queen Victoria granted its owner a more comfortable entry point via an equestrian gate with its own key (*by licence to the Royal Park), use of which remains an exclusive feature of the house today.
In an effort to create an environmentally friendly residence, green roofs with hydroponic vertical gardens clad the living room, while heat exchanges that utilize the constant ground temperature provide all energy required.
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