The design eschews the language of the typical barn conversion, instead making the cluster of historic agricultural buildings into an atmospheric getaway for relaxing and gathering.

© Will Scott

Architects: David Liddicoat, Liddicoat & Goldhill

Location: Kent, UK

Area: 213.0 sqm

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: Will Scott , Keith Collie, Courtesy of Liddicoat & Goldhill

Collaborators: Green Oak Company

Main Contractor: Virgil Petraitis

Site: Staple Farm Barn, Sandling Road, Hythe, Postling, Kent CT21 4HA

Client: John Sinclair (UsTwo) and Deborah Harvey

Structural Engineers: Fluid Strctures
Total Construction Cost: £480,000

© Will Scott

From the architect. The design eschews the language of the typical barn conversion, instead making the cluster of historic agricultural buildings into an atmospheric getaway for relaxing and gathering.

© Keith Collie

Our clients, a fashion designer & a digital designer, are avid collectors of reclaimed architectural artefacts. Together with the existing fabric of the barn, their discoveries form the material palette. The result ? part curation, part restoration ? is a unique interpretation of the 18th Century threshing barn, a building type that often engenders a uniformity...