Old Farm comprised five former agricultural buildings loosely arranged around a farmyard, built over the last five centuries. The result was a slightly haphazard, if charming, arrangement, with all of the existing spaces being relatively small, dark and disconnected. Our brief was to reconceive this disparate collection of buildings as a sustainable, modern home, which was achieved by linking two of the existing buildings together with a new, light-filled space that would contrast with - but complement - the existing buildings. This space is at the centre of the new home, the final piece in the jigsaw that makes sense of the whole. A 14th century farmhouse that underwent restoration as part of the works was subsequently removed from the English Heritage Buildings at Risk Register.