Happy Christmas!

Wishing all of you a very Happy Christmas and smooth start to the new year.

Blackwood in Passive House Magazine

Our awarding winning project, Blackwood, is featured in the most recent edition of  Passive House magazine. The most striking feature of Blackwood is our clients experience of living in the building. It has very high comfort levels where temperatures in…

We are hiring!

Based in the rural North Oxfordshire countryside, we are a small practice looking for a resourceful, independent and creative Part I or Part II to join our team. We work on a wide range of projects ranging from Passive standard…

Class Q Barn Conversion

Recently we returned to a completed project to talk to the clients about living in the building and to take photographs for our portfolio. It is always a pleasure to see how clients have settled in and to hear that…

Oxford Housing Development Visuals

We have been working on a low energy housing development in Oxford. Part of this current piece of work is to look in more detail at the interior layouts, finishes and fittings. We presented a report of mood boards to…

Feasibility Study Sketches

These sketches are part of a feasibility study report we produced showing initial ideas for a collection of farm buildings. At the start of a project we will carry out a feasibility study for our clients. This is a tool…

Recently completed projects – coming soon!

We had a busy few days photographing two completed projects to add to our portfolio. Both very different, but both following our core principles of energy efficiency, responding to context, collaboration and attention to detail.

Pre-cut timber I-beam system

We have been developing a pre-cut timber frame system to deliver highly insulated affordable buildings with increased on-site efficiency and minimised waste. The frame is designed, thermally modelled and optimised via BIM. A second process of Nesting ensures a minimum…

Visit to project reaching completion

Some of our team recently visited a project which is reaching completion. It’s a multi-phased project and this first phase creates an annex for family members to live as they grow older. Situated in a farmyard, the form of the…

We’re on The List by House & Garden!

We have been proud to be List members for the past 4 years. We are listed in the Directory and regularly featured in their Instagram Stories. Most recently our Low Energy Home was featured for a post on Open Plan Kitchen and Dining spaces.…

Planning permission received for house in AONB

We have received planning permission for the extensive space planning of a house in Gloucestershire. The house sits in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and on a good sized plot. A project such as this presents an interesting challenge…

Scheme for a GP’s Surgery

We have been working on a scheme to provide an improved GP surgery space within a Grade II* listed building. These sketches show a section through the existing listed terrace, restored gardens and mews building. By restoring the listed building…

Grade II Listed Manor House wins an Award!

Our grade II listed manor house has won the Listed and Modern Traditional Residential Extension Architectural Award! The awards were recently featured in The Times Bricks & Mortar and we are thrilled with the result!

Section Sketches

We were asked to take a look at an existing scheme to ensure the most was being made out of the building and the site. We produced these sketches for the client to show alternative options on how their house…

Grade II Listed House nominated for an award

Our Grade II Listed House has been nominated for an award! It’s currently appearing in the Listed Heritage Magazine published by the Listed Property Owners Club. It is being shown as an example of a sensitively designed extension to a listed building. It has…

Flint and Timber House in Enki

The beautiful Flint and Timber House appears in the current issue of Enki – on the shelves now!  

Office Barn Conversion Progress on Site

The windows are being installed in two of the three barns at our office barn conversion project. The window installation is always a big moment. They are big units which can weigh up to 400kg depending on their size.  These…

A visit before the clients move in

This is a local project that a few of us from the practice we were able to visit just before the clients moved in. As you can see, the new residents are brave with colour! It combines with a more…

Merry Christmas….!

…. and a very happy new year, from all the team at Charlie Luxton Design!