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A listed barn brought into use

A private client

  1. 01A listed barn brought into use
  2. 02What changed
  3. 03Selected projects
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A listed barn brought into use

Consent granted at the first attempt on a difficult building.

The challenge

A protected structure whose value lay in an open volume that any conventional conversion would have destroyed.

What we did

A free-standing insertion that touches the historic fabric in as few places as possible, developed with the conservation officer through pre-application rather than presented to them.

The outcome

Consent at the first submission and a building that still reads as a barn.

Results

What changed

1st
submission approved
Reversible
insertion, structurally independent

Projects

Selected projects

Residential, commercial and cultural work.

A rear extension that changed the whole house

A family in a Victorian terrace · Residential

A rear extension that changed the whole house

Not much more floor area, and a completely different house to live in.

A workplace built around how the team actually works

A growing company taking its first building · Commercial

A workplace built around how the team actually works

Not an open plan, and not cellular offices either.

Thinking about a project?

The earliest conversations are the most valuable ones. Get in touch before the brief is fixed.

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A listed barn brought into use

A private client · Heritage

A listed barn brought into use

Consent granted at the first attempt on a difficult building.

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