A stone threshing barn made into a house
A grade-II barn taken from a shell to a four-bedroom house, keeping the cart openings and the stone as found.
The brief from the conservation officer was simple to say and hard to do: change the use, not the building. New openings were formed only where a door or a pitching hole had been, and the stone that came out was kept and re-laid.
A ring beam was hidden inside the wall head to take the new roof, and the floor was suspended clear of the old ground so the walls could keep breathing in lime.