Rotunda House

A few years ago we were invited to pitch an idea for a new home for Prue Leith and John Playfair. Luckily for us they loved our contemporary re-imagining of the English country house.

The house features a prominent ‘Piano Nobile’, a raised ground floor containing the main living and public spaces, and is arranged around an existing barn which was incorporated in to the scheme.

The true heart of the building of course is the kitchen, where Prue was able to apply her long standing knowledge of perfecting their design. Prue, John and the house are featured in todays Sunday Times Home supplement, both online and in print.

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  • Planning decision received! - 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
  • Oxfordshire Artweeks Venue - 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
  • Shortlisted for RIBA South Awards! - 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
  • RIBA Chartered Practice - Charlie Luxton Design is proud to have become a RIBA Chartered Practice.
  • We are now employee owned! - 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
  • 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
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