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The site before, the building after

New houses, extensions, interiors and conversions, each photographed from the same spot before we started and after. Open one for the brief, the drawings and the materials.

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  • Before: an empty sloping meadow between two oak trees, with survey pegs and an orange string line marking out the houseAfter: a long low house of concrete and timber with a wall of glass, a dark pool in front, between two oak trees in daylight

    New build · Ashby Hill · 2025

    Meadow House

    A long, low house of board-marked concrete and larch on a sloping meadow, set between two old oaks with a pool that holds the sky.

    Kell Valley Design Awards 2025, House of the Year

  • Before: the back of the stone cottage with a tired white plastic conservatory, cracked paving and an overgrown gardenAfter: the stone cottage with a new oak-framed extension, a dark zinc roof and a full-width glass wall opening onto a stone terrace and lawn

    Extension · Kell Bridge · 2024

    Weaver's Cottage

    An oak-framed garden room and kitchen behind a stone weaver's cottage, replacing a leaking lean-to and opening the house to its garden.

  • Before: the empty loft of a stone granary under oak trusses, dusty boards, old sacks and a broken roof lightAfter: the loft as a home, white lime walls, a polished concrete floor, a long oak kitchen and a mezzanine under the oak trusses

    Interior · Kelderby · 2024

    Granary Loft

    The top floor of a stone granary by the river, turned into a one-bedroom home under its oak trusses, with a mezzanine for sleeping.

    Kelderby Civic Society Commendation 2024

  • Before: the stone chapel with its arched window boarded up, moss on the stone and brambles by a crumbling wallAfter: the stone chapel at dusk, its tall arched window re-glazed in black steel and glowing, joined to a new low concrete-and-timber wing round a gravel courtyard with a birch

    Conversion · Underhill · 2023

    Chapel at Underhill

    A disused stone chapel turned into a family home, with a low concrete-and-glass wing at its side for the kitchen and the stairs.

    Kell Valley Design Awards 2023, Best Conversion

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