The project is a collection of new ?agricultural? style buildings at the threshold between the formal garden of the main house and meadow beyond in a small Northamptonshire village.

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Architects: Ashworth Parkes Architects · Office Profile

Location: Warmington, Peterborough, Northamptonshire PE8, UK

Area: 78.0 sqm

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: Justin Paget Photography · Photographer Profile

© Justin Paget Photography

From the architect. The project is a collection of new ?agricultural? style buildings at the threshold between the formal garden of the main house and meadow beyond in a small Northamptonshire village.
Site Plan 2

The brief asked for the demolition of an existing garage, a garden store and the remains of an old piggery. In their place our clients asked for a ?Studio? building? with catering facilities and a bathroom, where our clients might ?go away? for the weekend, a garden storage building with room for an office at one end, a carport and a greenhouse.

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Taking the original piggery walls as a cue, we created a series of new walls of various heights and orientations in the local coursed limestone from which the main house is constructed and that is so prevalent in Warmington and other Northamptonshire village...