Successfully converting old farmhouses (stone barns, stables, manors, and piggeries alike), requires both the sympathy for historic details and the drive to innovate.
David Nossiter Architects in Suffolk
Architect David Nossiter converted a 19th-century barn in Suffolk renovating windows, floors, and layout within the original structure.
Moments in the design showcase contrasting old and new details.
Architect Andy Ramus of AR Design Studio renovated a manor house in Hampshire that had fallen into disrepair. From Manor House Stables, A Champion’s Home Reborn.
AR Design Studio in Hampshire
The architects converted the interior into a three-bedroom house using the elements of the original stable for added character.
Rural Office for Architecture in Norfolk
Rural Office for Architecture, a member of the Remodelista Architecture/Design Directory, reworked an existing tithe barn in Norfolk, England, as a house for landscape designer Emily Erlam. From A Rural Remodel in Norfolk, Tithe Barn and Piggery Included.
An inner courtyard was created by connecting the two separate buildings (the piggery and the tithe barn) and outer flint walls were retained with a new portal structure to support a new zinc roof.
Architectural designer Tom Givone renovated an 1820 farmhouse in the Catskills of New York adding modern details.
Tom Givone in Upstate New York
Givone installed skyscraper glass windows to mirror the shape of the original farmhouse.
LSL Architects in Provence
LSL Architects refurbished an 18th-century farmhouse in Provence over several years with a new connecting addition between the two original buildings.
The firm added new windows and cedar slats to the facade.
Septembre Architecture in the Loire Valley
Septembre Architects converted an old farm in the Loire Valley into a modern summer home from A Stone Farmhouse in France Gets an Artful Update from a Paris Firm.
The original construction wood ceiling lintels contrast with new concrete floors.
Architects Jonathan Tuckey renovated the Providence Chapel (a Grade II–listed 1867 derelict structure) in Colerne, England, near Bath for designer Niki Turner. Shown here is the new extension Tuckey built to connect to the old.
Jonathan Tuckey in Bath
A glass-walled connecting hallway between the two buildings.
Bruno Erpicum in Belgium
In one of our all-time favorite projects, Belgian architect Bruno Erpicum transformed the stone outbuilding of a country farmhouse with steel sheets and a glass-enclosed living room.
Single-pane glass windows set into the original brick and stone.
ADR Architects in the Czech Republic
A series of farm buildings in the South Bohemian region of the Czech Republic was converted into a modern distillery by architects ADR.
A modern steel staircase inside one of the structures on the farm.