A Douglas Fir Extension Wraps Around an Arts and Crafts House in Petersfield

In the heart of Petersfield, this spectacular Edwardian home pairs historic character with expressive contemporary architecture and a beautiful green garden.

The five-bedroom Arts and Crafts house has been extended by architect Robin Lee. Built in 1903, it retains its distinctive red-brick lower story, decorative hung tiles, and elegant Edwardian proportions.

This Edwardian home pairs a contemporary extension that adds warmth, light, and texture, creating a home of more than 4,600 square feet that balances generous rooms for gathering with quieter corners for reading and working.

A brick brise soleil shelters the new entrance, casting changing patterns of light and shadow throughout the day. Built-in cupboards provide space for coats and shoes, and salvaged brick flooring, sourced from a Hampshire farm, continues throughout the ground floor.

At the heart of the home, the kitchen is designed around the pleasures of cooking and spending time together.

A cozy seating area with colorful rugs lets you enjoy the greenery outside.

A raised open hearth forms a focal point in the open-plan kitchen.

Reinterpreting the traditional Edwardian kitchen, the unfitted arrangement combines bespoke oak furniture and worktops, white glazed brick walls, and a bare-plaster ceiling.

Along the side and rear, a black-oiled Douglas fir structure wraps around the original house. Expansive glazing frames the planting outside, while high ceilings create a wonderful sense of space.

Within this enlarged plan, retained Edwardian walls, bay windows, and doors preserve the character and more intimate scale of the original rooms. In the hallway, the owners added hammocks to gaze at the sky.

The original part of the house features a large library room and a more intimate sitting room.

The original entrance with its stained-glass doors has also been retained.

The master bedroom occupies the eastern side of the house (above the kitchen extension). The room features oak flooring, and a former exterior wall has been left exposed, showcasing the home’s architectural history.

The en-suite bathroom pairs pink marble surfaces with a freestanding bath and a large walk-in shower.

The dressing room is fitted into the original Edwardian house, featuring a beautiful bay window with drawers underneath and a vanity table. Built-in floor-to-ceiling wardrobes offer plenty of storage.

The top floor features a beautiful home office space with vaulted ceilings and a sunny yellow hue on one slanted ceiling.

Designed by landscape architect Pip Morisson, the garden feels like a natural continuation of the house. A broad brick-paved terrace gives way to an expansive lawn, framed by abundant planting that includes palms, Monterey and Scots pines, fig and banana trees.

Raised growing beds follow one boundary, and a hand-built chestnut shed adds another thoughtful, crafted element.

The house is listed for £3,500,000 at The Modern House and Hemingway+K.