The plot
Both buildings sit at the north end.
The farmhouse to the lane, the converted range turning south behind it, and a courtyard held between the two. The garden runs away downhill to the south.
The northern half of the consented site plan. Zoom for the whole plot, including the garden running south.
The front elevation
The whole idea, read left to right.
The farmhouse keeps its chimneys, its porch and its traditional openings. The farm building steps down under its own roof, its wide openings reworked as boarded and glazed bays, so it still reads as what it was.
One family of brick, one family of tiles, two buildings that now read as a single house.
Ground floor
Kitchen in the barn, quiet rooms in the house.
The converted range takes the kitchen and the dining room and opens to the garden. The old house keeps the lounge, the snug, the study and the gym, gathered around the stair.
The join between the two buildings is where the plan does its work.
First floor
Four bedrooms, four bathrooms.
Every bedroom has its own en suite, and the principal bedroom has a dressing room. Above the single-storey part of the converted range, the plan simply shows roof.
A retained basement sits under the house, which is why the levels were the hard part.
The eaves
Where the conservation case gets specific.
Tiles to match the existing on insulated and ventilated rafters, a brick corbel matched to the original, and cast iron style deepflow gutters, because a condition required the rainwater goods to be metal.
Every facing material was submitted and approved by condition before work went above slab level.
