Cotswolds Coach House
Design Storey · Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom · 2019
Projects / Project
The Cowshed
Design Storey has turned a dilapidated grade II listed cowshed in the Cotswolds into a calm retreat organised around an inserted timber pod.
The barn at dusk with its openings lit.
- Practice
- Design Storey
- Year
- 2023
- Photographer
- Lawrence Grigg
The project
The barn came with a former farmhouse and existing consents, but the owners, a couple based in Liverpool, wanted a cosy sanctuary that the approved scheme did not deliver. It comprised a single-storey cowshed and a two-storey bull pen with a hayloft, on different levels and not linked inside.
Design Storey united the two parts by inserting a timber pod into the listed fabric. A restrained palette, raw lime plaster and a light-touch approach keep the focus on the pod and on the barn’s original character.
The dining area beneath the old roof trusses.
The living space beneath exposed trusses.
A white kitchen island under the timber roof.
A bedroom with stone walls under the eaves.
The barn and garden at dusk.
Credits
- Architect and interior designer
- Design Storey
- Photographer
- Lawrence Grigg
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