Planning application

We’ve just submitted a planning application to regenerate and bring cohesion to a set of farm buildings on the Ridgeway in Oxfordshire. The site has evolved over the years with various piecemeal additions to the main farmhouse and ancillary buildings being added and taken away. Our intention is to reduce and simplify these buildings and to enclose the courtyard around which the buildings are arranged. Landscaping is a central part of the application with a formally planted courtyard garden surrounded by more a naturalistic scheme for the wider site to enhance the biodiversity.

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  • Valeside featured in Gardens Illustrated - We regularly collaborate with garden designer Katie Guillebaud for landscape and garden design. Her beautiful scheme for our stone barn conversion, Valeside , is featured in this month’s edition of Gardens Illustrated. Katie has skilfully created a secluded and airy space…
  • We’ve been shortlisted in the Wood Awards 2026! - 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…
  • Conservation of 16C Roof Structure - 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.…
  • Grade II Listed House in Homes & Gardens - 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…
  • A Cotswolds House - 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…
  • Charlie x Retrouvius for their new blog, Taking Stock! - 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…
  • Visiting a project on site - 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…
  • Photographing Day - 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…
  • Headquarters for an ethical finance company - 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…
  • Ridgeway House wins a RIBA South Award! - 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…
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