Article source: Liddicoat & Goldhill 

The design eschews the language of the typical barn conversion, instead making the cluster of historic agricultural buildings into an atmospheric getaway for relaxing and gathering.

Our clients, a fashion designer & a digital designer, are avid collectors of reclaimed architectural artefacts. Together with the existing fabric of the barn, their discoveries form the material palette. The result – part curation, part restoration – is a unique interpretation of the 18th Century threshing barn, a building type that often engenders a uniformity of approach when converted.

Image Courtesy © Will Scott

• Architects: Liddicoat & Goldhill
• Project: The Ancient Party Barn
• Location: Folkestone, United Kingdom
• Photography: Keith Collie And Will Scott
• Client: John Sinclair (UsTwo) and Deborah Harvey
• Structural Engineers: Fluid Strctures
• Total Construction Cost: £480,000
• Gross Internal Floor Area: 213m2
• Completion Date: Winter 2014
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