Stealth Barn
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Front elevation
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Guest house and studio
Sitting in the exposed expanse of the Cambridgeshire fens, Stealth Barn is a sharp black mass, a shadow of the adjacent Ochre Barn – a large threshing barn converted by Carl Turner Architects into a home and studio.
Placed perpendicular to the existing barn, this addition provides a self-contained unit that could act as a guest house, studio or meeting place, depending on the time of year and workloads.
The toughness of the exterior is inverted internally by the inclusion of a warmer engineered timber board that wraps around the space to form angles reminiscent of the adjacent barns divided with straw bales.
The arrangement of the main spaces into simple pockets is key to the barn’s multifunctional use.
Data
- Begun: Jul 2010
- Completed: Aug 2011
- Floor area: 63m2
- Sector: House
- Total cost: £30,000
- Procurement: Self build
- Address: Ochre Barn, Mill Road, Walpole St.Peter, Norfolk, PE14 7QW, United Kingdom
Professional Team 
- Architect: Carl Turner Architects
- Project architect: Carl Turner
- Client: Mr and Mrs Robertson
- Structural engineer: Built Engineers
Suppliers
- OSB Boarding supply: James Latham Plc
- Supplying and constructing timber frame: Kudos Timber Frame
