Hyde + Hyde Architects has secured planning permission to replace a two-storey 1920s home in rural Somerset with a single-storey modernist property that it says engages better with the local landscape.

The practice – which has been shortlisted for RIBA South Award and a Royal Society of Architects in Wales Award in recent weeks – designed the property, named Saule House, for a client who grew up in Latvia. Saule is the Latvian name for the sun.

Hyde + Hyde said Saule House would provide “seamless connections” and a “sensitive design response” to its setting, which is a sloping site in the north of the county.

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