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Barn Conversion

Colchester

Project Details

Alteration to existing property

Practice

Inkpen Downie Architecture & Design Ltd

2 Balkerne Passage , COLCHESTER , Essex , CO1 1PA , United Kingdom

Conversion of barn to a residential property to provide a new sustainable home for our Clients on their family farm and in close proximity to the listed farmhouse. The design used materials and resources from the land including timber for joinery and energy for a ground source heat pump. As part of the process the work required agreement with the planning authority to establish that it could be categorised as permitted development. Key features - Sustainable building techniques - Historic Building Techniques - Special negotiations with planning authority - Interior design