Watermill Interventions

Three contemporary interventions have been placed at a Grade II listed watermill on the River Test in Hampshire. Intervention A is an external extension providing a breakfast and family room that is seamless with the garden beyond, the view framed by a textured ceiling, wall and projecting concrete plinth.

Intervention B is a freestanding oak and stainless steel kitchen within the thatched east barn for farm workers and gardeners.

Intervention C is an artist’s studio set on the first floor of the former corn barn adjacent to the mill race. A sensitive palette of materials fuse contemporary and vernacular, including limewashed oak rough sawn boards/brickwork, powdercoated aluminium, concrete, resin flooring, lead roofing and coated glass amongst others. A recessed woodburning stove provides heat and hot water for the heavily used family areas. The three interventions underpin new layers of contemporary use into the unique, historic and ecologic context at the watermill.