Class Q Dutch Barn Conversion
Rixon Architects · Wiltshire, United Kingdom
Projects / Built project
Cotswold Country House
An 18th-century cottage is reorganised around a new family kitchen, central staircase and stronger connection to its garden.
The country house from the garden.
The project
Successive historic extensions had left Sisters Cottage with a dysfunctional sequence of rooms. The project upscales the building for contemporary family life by moving the kitchen to the rear and creating a modern kitchen and dining space as the home's everyday hub.
A new front extension carries a central staircase, replacing an inaccessible corridor of interconnecting upstairs rooms. Skylights, new windows and floor-to-ceiling corner doors bring daylight through the plan and link the traditional house more directly to the garden.
- Practice
- Rixon Architects
- Existing building
- Sisters Cottage, an 18th-century house
- Brief
- Upscale the cottage for contemporary family life
- Kitchen
- Relocated to the rear as a kitchen and dining family hub
- Circulation
- New central staircase within a front extension
- Daylight
- Skylights, windows and floor-to-ceiling corner doors
Kitchen with rooflights, opening to the garden room.
Panelled dining room.
Credits
- Design practice
- Rixon Architects