Thicket Mead

Midsomer Norton, Somerset

CLIENT: ARCHITECT: Thrive Architects

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The masterplan for Thicket Mead, commissioned by the Duchy of Cornwall, contains 137 houses on a 5.7 hectare site at the edge of Midsomer Norton, Somerset.

All properties are carefully detailed and constructed using a restrained palette of traditional local materials, maintaining the difficult balance between variety and cohesion. The development is an aesthetic model for the design of new rural estates, successfully balancing cost effectiveness with commercial viability and attractive, high quality design. Overall Thicket Mead gives the impression of gentle evolution over time, combining a dense urban character with a sense of the rural.

The development has achieved great local popularity and has won prizes for both design and construction in the Bath and North East Somerset Council ‘Building and Design Quality Awards’.