Berrybrook Farm
The Farmhouse is a handsome Grade II Listed 17th century dwelling featuring Green Sand Stone walls and stone mullioned windows under a plain clay tile roof. It sits in a farmyard setting amongst various other historic and modern barns on a working farm in Sedgehill near Shaftesbury in Dorset.
Farmyard redevelopment
The farmhouse was uninhabitable and many of the outbuilding were in a poor state of repair or partially collapsed. A masterplan was prepared for works to repair, extend and repurpose historic and modern buildings and to demolish other redundant structures on the site.
Pre-application consultations were followed by Planning and Listed Building applications for the extensive works.
The farmhouse
The Listed farmhouse was totally, yet sensitively, refurbished with a new kitchen stone extension to the rear under a plain tile roof. One end of the farmhouse was underpinned where an end gable was moving away from the main structure.
Each elevation, both internally and externally, was repointed in lime mortar.
Existing timber windows were refurbished whilst missing stone mullioned windows on the front elevation were re-instated with Chicksgrove stone and new leaded metal casements.
The roof was carefully stripped to allow new felt and dormer windows to be installed to serve attic bedrooms with works subject to a Licence from Natural England with regard to protected species.
Respecting the fabric
Historic timberwork was preserved or repaired whilst lime plastered walls and lathe and plaster elements were re-instated.
New limecrete floors were installed with underfloor heating with new stone or historic stone floors re-instated over.
A partially collapsed cart shed and stores was re-instated as a cart shed, office and stores.
Completion Date 2024
Photography Woolley & Wallis
Ecology Dawin Ecology
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A new ‘fallback’ house
WDA have recently gained Full Planning Permission and Listed Building Consent for a new dwelling under the fallback concept.
Having gained approval at appeal to convert a barn to a dwelling via Class Q permitted development, we then went on to gain full planning permission for a brand new house, adjoining a recently restored Grade-II curtilage barn. This ‘fallback’ house was allowed as the precedent for a dwelling had been set via the Class Q approval.
The traditional design for the house is influenced by its agricultural heritage setting featuring brick, stone, tile and timber clad elements.
Planning Consultants Vision Planning
Ecology KP Ecology
Arboriculture Wadey Trees
New annexe and garaging
Full and Listed Building Consent has been granted to convert a barn into garaging and an annexe ancillary to the existing farmhouse. Barn D is currently used for accessible storage of agricultural supplies, vehicles, machinery, and equipment. The approved scheme includes the reconstruction of the south and east elevations in red brick to match existing masonry, new timber cladding over existing blockwork walls, the installation of a new roof and a change of use to provide a reinstated cart shed, garages, stores, a gym, and a farm office annexe.
No elements of the existing building will be removed as part of the proposals. Historic masonry elements are retained with new pointing in lime mortar. Works also include the addition of photovoltaic panels to the roof, with heating provided by an air source heat pump, timber cladding to the exposed concrete blockwork walls, and the installation of an internal electrical panel. All proposed works are located away from the historic brick walls and will therefore result in no physical impact on the historic fabric or significance of the building.
Holiday lets diversification
A former cow shed and milking house was granted Planning and Listed Building Consent at Appeal for the conversion and extension of the building into two holiday let cottages, along with the restoration of the adjacent timber framed granary on staddle stones.
Planning Consultants Vision Planning
Ecology Darwin
