The traditional brick cottage has charming simplicity with a gabled roof over a rectangular plan, and a small front porch projected on piers. The decorative elements of the house can be traced to the functional planning and design of the house, such as the asymmetric facade arrangement corresponding to the layout of rooms over slavish symmetry, small windows to keep the sun out in Canberra's hot summers, and roof vents arranged in a decorative manner. The combination of robust red bricks, and siting of a cottage in a landscaped setting, establish a rustic quality faithful to the tradition of Arts and Crafts style architecture. Generous glazing facilitates picturesque links between the house and its established landscape setting (capitalising on views to the mature oak trees on the street), while generous eave overhangs to glazing ensures solar passive design for Canberra's climate. The gable roof, deep window hoods and orthogonal forms in the extension are a nod to visual language of the cottage and overhanging eaves typical of the era, however the architectural treatment is crisp and contemporary to reflect modern living and allow the easy discernment of the new from the old. The use and appreciation of natural materials in the extension as ornament - glass, copper, and timber- also continue the ideals of the Arts and Crafts movement, and seek to complement the materials of the existing cottage. The use of warm materials such as red copper and warm timber provide tonal play on the red tones of the bricks in the cottage, whilst providing textural contrast, to present a harmonious relationship between the new and the old to the street.