Barns & Contemporary
Our Barns & Contemporary portfolio is typically inspired by the simple, vernacular, rural and ancillary structures dotted across the UK. The barn form suits both modern and traditional design interpretations, is limitless on size and inherently varied – with details often inspired by your location and the chosen materials.
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Lake House
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Mortimer Barn
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Meadowmead
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Bodenham Barn
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Kimbolton Barn
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Whistelle Barn
Browse Barn & Contemporary Plans
Simple, informal, vernacular
Traditional or Contemporary – or maybe a blend of both?
A good barn design, using authentic craft and honest materials, can often straddle the modern and vernacular. We approach barn design with a tight focus upon proportion, scale, simplicity and material choices, but also seek out ways to be joyful and irreverent. Feature glazing within oak framing, overhangs, verandahs, voids and recessions are all part of our Barn and Contemporary vocabulary – alongside all forms of weatherboarding and a consciously edited palette of natural materials.
Featured project
Lake House
The aim was to create a modern (but vernacular) home for a young family who live and work onsite. The Lake House sits quietly, yet confidently, amongst the lakes and woodland that the family have lovingly created over 4 decades from an old quarry. Our clients chose natural, sustainable materials that reflected the site – local stone, vertical timber boarding and clay tiles – all of which were deliberately selected to soften into the incredible location.
The end result is a beautiful and super sustainable family home run from renewable energy within an ecological oasis – and built to last.
