London-based studio Emil Eve Architects has transformed a heritage-listed building in Somerset into a lifestyle store, cafe and bed and breakfast (+ slideshow).

Caro Somerset is located on the high street of a small English town named Bruton ? also home of the Hauser and Wirth gallery.

Emil Eve Architects extensively reconfigured the space in order to make it suitable for the store and cafe, and also created a family home and short-stay accommodation behind it.

Inside the main building, a cafe and lifestyle store inhabit the ground-floor front rooms.

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Homeware products are displayed on bespoke furniture throughout a series of unique spaces, which have each been stripped back and fitted out to show the building's history.
In the cafe area, coffee and cakes are served from a tiled counter, and bar-style seating allows customers a place to rest and eat.
"The historic arrangement of the rooms has been retained and visitors pass from one cellular room to the next, each with a different character," Emil Eve Architects co-founder Emma Perkin told Dezeen.

"The nature of the furniture allows these spaces to be rearranged so repeat customers may discover a different place to sit, and certainly new things to buy, on their return."
Behind and above the public spaces, a family home and short-stay accommodation were created. Aiming to retain a similar aesthetic t...