Architects Journal have published Home Farm in their First Look series this morning. Click this link to read the full article. Our practice has long focused on in-use energy and embodied carbon. On this project, we wanted to lean into something harder: procuring…
Hooky Housing has won the Best Housing Solution award at the CPRE Centenary Awards ! We are delighted to have won this award which specifically recognises the people, projects and ideas that are helping the countryside and its communities thrive. This project came…
We recently visited a newly completed project where the client took on project management of the construction stage themselves. The buildings sit on the site to make the most of the views over the garden and the wider landscape. The…
This year the CPRE – Campaign for Protection of Rural England launched their Centenary National Awards . Bourne Green, which is affectionately known as Hooky Housing to its residents, was nominated in the Best Housing Solution category. We are very pleased to announce…
We are very excited that our Headquarters for an Ethical Finance Company has been shortlisted in the Buildings category of this year’s Wood Awards! We are incredibly proud of this project and all the teams involved, not least our wonderful and supportive clients. Built around regenerative…
An amazing discovery was made during the works on site at a pub project we’re currently working on. Careful removal of layers of plasterboard inside an outbuilding has revealed a mid-sixteenth century roof structure over a section of the building.…
Of all our projects, this one has been featured the most in press over the years. It can be found in this month’s Homes & Gardens magazine as an example of a modern extension to a period farmhouse. A sensitively…
We are very pleased to have had a recently completed project photographed. The owner’s of the house came to us for help to reconfigure a relatively new building. The brief was to create a home that could expand and contract…
Our founder Charlie was invited by our friends at architectural design and salvage company, Retrouvius, to be the first guest on their new blog series, Taking Stock. Charlie sat down with Adam to talk about the importance of using salvaged…
We are in the final weeks of construction for this barn conversion project. We are combining an original stone barn with two agricultural barn structures to provide a home for a growing family. A clear attention to detail has been…
We recently visited a completed project which is now ready for photographing. It’s always a pleasure to return to a building and its owners who we have got to know so well. Looking forward to revealing the final images when…
This project is the new headquarters for an employee-owned ethical finance company, built around regenerative architecture and circular economy principles. An almost entirely timber structure was constructed within two existing steel-frame agricultural barns, retaining as much of the original fabric…
We are so proud that Ridgeway House has won a RIBA South Award! The success of the project is testament to our amazing team, and to the wider team who were involved. The competition was very strong which makes winning this award…
As part of our commitment to sustainability, we have refined an in-house, pre-cut timber frame system over the past decade, aimed at improving affordability, construction efficiency and environmental performance. Having worked with numerous timber frame suppliers in the past, we…
We’ve received planning permission for a rural events venue on a working farm in Oxfordshire. The scheme transforms an already successful events business in to a year round offer that extends the season and integrates more closely with the rhythm…
We are very excited to be an Oxfordshire Artweeks venue this year! Exhibiting the work of two local artists living and working in Hook Norton – Rachel Cronin and Kelly Washbourne . As part of the North Oxfordshire week we will be open from…
Ridgeway House has been shortlisted in the RIBA South Awards! We’re incredibly proud to have been part of this truly collaborative project and huge congratulations to all those involved. Not least the clients who were a central part of the…
At the end of last year we became employee owned. Employee ownership formalises the long-held ethos of our practice: that our success is rooted in the talent, dedication, and contribution of our team. This transition allows us to demonstrate our…
