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Personally, I would try and look upon this patio as the start of an ongoing project. Get it wrong now and it could be difficult to 'marry it' with what come next. We all know that any solid paving should finish 150mm below DPC. Yes a virtical DPC can be used and yes you can finish the paving short of the walls with a lower gravel level, but not as full drainage.
We have had this same problem a number of times and always found a way of taking the surface water away from the dwelling without affecting the existing buildings.