Cotswolds Passive House
Rixon Architects · Cotswolds, United Kingdom
Projects / Project
Class Q Dutch Barn Conversion
A Dutch barn on a 27-acre Wiltshire farm is converted into a low-carbon, single-storey home for multi-generational living.
- Setting
- A 27-acre farm planned for multi-generational living
- Planning route
- Class Q conversion outside the conservation area
- Structure
- Retained Dutch barn shell with an internal SIPPS-panel timber frame
- Energy
- Air-source heat pump and underfloor heating
- Programme
- One-bedroom, single-storey home with kitchen, dining, sitting and cinema spaces
The story
The story behind the work.
The farm's conservation-area setting made the wider conversion brief difficult, but Rixon Architects identified that the Dutch barn sat just outside the designated area and could follow the Class Q route. The existing agricultural shell was retained so the new home preserved the barn's external character.
A SIPPS-panel timber frame was built inside the shell to improve thermal performance, airtightness and low-carbon performance. An air-source heat pump and underfloor heating support the one-bedroom home, whose generous kitchen and dining space is joined by a sitting room and cinema room for the wider family.
Credits
- Design practice
- Rixon Architects
The practice