Certified EnerPHit Barn Conversion
With Planning permission for a conversion, rather than a rebuild, the challenge on this project was making the existing steel frame and stone barns safe enough to enable construction of the new timber strucutre around them. We worked closely with the builder, architect, and Conservation Officer to stabilise the existing structures and repair whilst retaining as much of the original building fabric as possible.
The new thermal building fabric for the main house is an i-joist timber frame, with a central steel frame for stability where walls were proposed to be removed between the steel and stone barns.
There is a detached office/store building, which has a more ‘traditional’ retrofit approach to the structure. The original stone walls remain load-bearing, with a new i-joist timber roof strucutre.
We also designed the drainage, with surface water on soakaways, and foul drainage on an easement over the neighbouring field to meet the public drain.