Cotes Farm
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View of large oriel window, cut into the existing barn, framing landscape views
Peter Blundell Jones Download Original
Barn conversion in Lancashire to become outward looking, with the addition of a bedroom wing
The house grew out of an existing dilapidated barn, which perches on a exposed hillside in the west Pennines of Lancashire. The project replaces the existing farmhouse with a new wing of sleeping accomodation behind an undulating wall. This is joined to the living spaces in the converted barn by a glazed cooking/eating link, with a timber bridge.
The new wing is sculpted into the surrounding landscape and is designed to blend unobtrusively into the hillside. Its copper roof and walls of local stone reinforce this impression. A three-meter square glass bay window cantilevers from the gable end of the barn, providing views across the moors and allowing natural light into the barn.
Data
- Begun: Jun 2000
- Completed: Dec 2002
- Floor area: 389m2
- Sector: House
- Total cost: £449,834
- Procurement: IFC 98
- Address: Cotes Farm, Blackburn, Lancashire, United Kingdom
Professional Team 
- Architect: Evans Vettori Architects Ltd
- Client: Private
- Main contractor: Marland Brothers
- Structural engineer: Blackwood Structural Design
- Quantity surveyor: Tom Lucas