One of our specialisms is designing within historic places and our sensitive approach has seen us work on projects for private estates around the country.
In each case, we examine and interpret the layers of history of a site giving careful consideration to the integration of infrastructure and new uses to facilitate a sustainable future.
We have worked with the Barnston Estate in Cheshire, which can trace its history back to the time of the Norman Conquest, for a number of years.
Our current project for them includes working with Raise Architects on plans, which have just been submitted to the council, to breathe new life into a Grade II listed 15th Century hall and its grounds on the Barnston Estate in Churton.
Under the plans, outbuildings in the farmyard would provide 10 new high-quality homes around a courtyard with offices available to residents for homeworking through the renovation of a disused hayloft.
The highlight of the development would be the creation of a care farm to support those with physical and mental challenges that would be run as a not-for-profit Community Interest Company and which would become a community and educational resource.
We’ve designed new access from the main road, while regenerative landscape design and management plans will enhance existing biodiversity, with diversification of flora which will attract more wildlife to the site.
Nature-led strategies will be implemented to ensure provision for nesting birds and bat roosts within the converted farm buildings and their surrounding landscape.
We were really impressed with Land Studio. They are creative, a delight to work with and captured our vision and their own vision perfectly.
Shahina Ahmad, Principal of Eden Girls’ School, Waltham Forest.