The Brief

The brief for this project was to create a 5 bed, luxury home. Featuring a games room/ cinema room, sun lounge as well as a large open plan kitchen dining living space that made the most of the views from the site.
The design retains all existing external cladding as part of the conversion (including concrete blockwork, fibre cement sheeting, timber boarding and corrugated metal sheeting).
A modest number of new openings were proposed to the north west, north east and south east elevations. The south west elevation would remain intact to preserve the building’s original character from the most visible elevation. The fenestration has been designed to have a vertical emphasis which would result in a modern quasi-agricultural conversion.

The existing steel frame would remain intact with no demolition proposed as part of the application. Some existing corrugated cladding from the rear facing lean-to projection would be stripped back but the steel frame would be retained as an open feature within the proposed garden area.

The living accommodation is arranged over 2 floors to maximise views and light in to the building.

We now have permission for this and are excited to see this project take shape on site.

The Brief

We were appointed by the owner to help with re-purposing the building for sale. In this instance, it was considered that this building would be best used as a 3 new homes.

Here we have used a mixture of the existing blockwork and timber cladding and inserted contemporary, glazed openings that accentuate the form of the original building.

This is a building which like so many, had it not been allowed to change the use to a dwelling would have sat in the landscape largely redundant except for some very light agricultural storage use. The application has been approved but has not started on site yet.

The Brief

We were approached to create two homes from the existing barns on site.

The Black Barn is a small traditional stone barn physically linked to a larger steel portal framed building. The building will be converted into a six bed home comprising an open plan kitchen/dining area, open plan living/lobby area, utility/plant room and 3 no. bedrooms on the ground floor. At first floor the accommodation would comprise a study, storage and 2 no. bedrooms (with ensuites).

The Green Barn is a modern steel portal framed building finished with green corrugated metal cladding. The building would be converted into a four bed dwellinghouse comprising an open plan living/kitchen area, open plan lobby/dining area, WC, plant room, utility/storage room and 2 no. bedrooms (with ensuites) on the ground floor. The first floor would comprise a games room and 2 no. bedrooms (with ensuites).

The roof will be fitted with PV panels that would provide the majority of the electricity for the dwellinghouses. Primary heating would be provided by a Ground Source Heat Pump system.

The Brief

We were appointed by the owner to help with re-purposing these buildings, and in this instance, it was considered that this building would be best used as a new residential building. The site is located in open countryside, at the edge of small complex of former agricultural buildings.

Here we have used corrugated sheet metal to clad the building, a material that is common to modern agricultural buildings, and inserted contemporary, glazed openings that accentuate the form of the original building.

This is a building which like so many, had it not been allowed to change the use to a dwelling would have sat in the landscape largely redundant except for some very light agricultural storage use.