New Plan Feature: Strafford Manor | 4,358 Sq Ft House Plan – 5 Beds 6 Baths

One hundred and one feet, ten inches. That’s the depth of this house before you add a single setback.

The Strafford Manor house plan is the plan you reach for when the lot stops being the constraint. Nothing about it is compressed. The question to settle first is whether your site can hold it.

Plan 4358 went into the catalog carrying the Multigenerational style tag, and the way the square footage is arranged is the reason why.

The spec, before anything else

Total heated area	4,358 sq ft
First floor	2,679 sq ft
Second floor	1,679 sq ft
Footprint	78′-10″ wide by 101′-10″ deep
Bedrooms / baths	5 / 6
Primary bedroom location	Downstairs
Garage	3 car, courtyard
Primary roof pitch	16/12
Ridge height from first floor	34′-7″
Ceiling heights	10′ first floor, 9′ second floor
Exterior veneer	Brick primary, siding secondary
Style	Modern English Tudor, Modern European, Multigenerational

The lot this plan needs

Start with the depth, because that’s the number that rules sites out. At 101′-10″, the house alone eats over a hundred feet before your front and rear setbacks touch it. A 150 foot deep lot with 30 front and 20 rear leaves you 100 feet, and you’re already short.

Width runs 78′-10″. Add two ten foot side setbacks and you’re at close to a hundred feet of lot width.

Screen for it before you shop

The catalog filters by footprint width across a 25 to 143 foot range and by depth across 44 to 133 feet. Strafford Manor sits in the upper half of both. You can screen your lot against those two numbers before you open an elevation. That saves the conversation where a buyer falls for a rendering that was never going to fit.

Depth is the dimension builders forget to check. It’ll fail late, at the site plan, after the buyer has already picked the house.

Why is the garage set into a courtyard?

Because three garage doors on the street face of a manor elevation would undo the elevation.

The garage orientation attribute on plan 4358 reads courtyard, three car. The doors turn inward, off the primary street view. From the curb you see brick, gable, and window, which is the whole point of a plan in this class.

That arrangement costs land. A courtyard needs the driveway to enter, turn, and give a vehicle room to swing before it reaches a door. Our guide to custom garage design puts typical bay depth at 20 to 24 feet. A three car bank runs roughly 450 square feet of structure, before you add the turning apron in front of it.

Run that as its own calculation. The 78′-10″ width already includes the garage wing, but the courtyard and its approach take lot area outside the footprint. If your site plan doesn’t leave room for a vehicle to turn, the courtyard becomes a driveway pointed at a wall.

What the Multigenerational tag is doing here

The square footage splits 2,679 on the first floor and 1,679 on the second. About 61 percent sits on the ground, with the primary suite down there.

Five bedrooms and six baths on a plan that keeps the primary downstairs leaves real program upstairs. That’s the shape of a house built to hold more than one household, and it’s why the plan carries the tag it does.

The demand behind it is documented. Pew Research Center put 18 percent of the US population in multigenerational households as of 2022, up from 7 percent in 1971. That’s a long trend, not a spike.

Before you sell it that way, get clear on what the buyer needs. There’s a code line between a second suite and a second dwelling unit, and the second one brings permitting with it. Our questions to ask your builder about multigenerational plans covers what to settle first.

The elevation and what it costs

Brick primary, siding secondary, a 16/12 pitch, and a ridge 34′-7″ above the first floor.

A 16/12 over 2,679 square feet of first floor coverage is a large roof at a steep pitch. Framing including roofing is the single largest detailed subcomponent of construction cost in the National Association of Home Builders study, running 11.6 percent. On a plan this size that percentage is attached to a bigger number, so you’ll want the roof bid before the elevation gets approved.

The masonry field is the other dial. Brick over nearly 80 feet of frontage is a real order, and where the brick to siding line sits moves it. You can see how the same detailing logic plays out across the Modern English Tudor collection at smaller footprints.

What gets changed most often

The published option list tells you what buyers and builders adjust on a plan in this configuration. Here’s what’s on it.

• Foundation. Slab, inground basement, and walkout basement are all offered. On a lot large enough for this footprint you often have grade to work with, so price the walkout before you settle for the standard set.
• Plan reversal. On a courtyard plan this decides which side the courtyard opens toward, which is a site orientation decision rather than a styling one. Mirror reverse flips the layout and leaves the text and dimensions as drawn. Right reading reverse flips the plan and rewrites the wording and dimensions so the sheets read correctly.
• CAD file. This is what you buy when modifications are coming. The PDF set is included with the plan.
• Veneer ratio. Brick primary over siding secondary is the cost dial on this elevation, and the frontage is long enough that small changes to the masonry line add up.

The mechanics of requesting any of these are in our builder’s guide to modifying house plans. Elite Design Group makes the changes to the set before it reaches your framer, not after.

Who this plan fits

• Builders on estate lots, large custom sites, or low density subdivisions with roughly 100 feet of buildable width and 130 feet of usable depth
• Buyers who want the primary suite on the main floor without giving up a full second story
• Households planning for a second generation under the same roof, where the upstairs program has to stand on its own
• Sites where the street view matters enough to pay for keeping three garage doors off it

Pass on it if your depth is tight. No modification shortens a 101 foot house without redrawing it, and that’s a different project than a plan purchase.

Check the depth before you check anything else

Pull the plat, subtract the front and rear setbacks, and compare what’s left to 101′-10″. If that clears, run the width against 78′-10″ and then find room for the courtyard approach.

Three numbers, fifteen minutes. It’s the cheapest step in the whole process and it’s the one that gets skipped.

Full specifications, floor plans, and elevations are on the Strafford Manor plan page. Some plans include a 3D walkthrough, and clients can request one for an additional fee.

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