Projects

Buildings we've permitted and built.

Each one shows the route it took to permission, what we did ourselves and how it's used now.

The events barn lit up at night
EVENT & HOSPITALITY · 2021

Events barn, south Cotswolds

A public events building with its own bar, kitchen and toilets, seating 160 for dinner and 220 standing. Steel portal frames with exposed rafters, clad in western red cedar, with a bespoke waney-edge bar.

PERMISSION
Full planning
BUILDING REGS
Full plans, for public use
OUR ROLE
Designed, permitted and built
BUILD TIME
Eight months
Our family home in a disused quarry: charred vertical cladding, a large glazed door and a timber deck
HOME · 2025

Family home in a disused quarry

A four-bedroom, two-bathroom home, 6.8 × 20 m, built to the full size the mobile home definition allows. Clad in cedar from our own plantation; kitchen worktops cut from quarry stone. Designed, built and fitted out in about a year.

Mobile home route · no Building Regs needed
New insulated roof with battens, a rooflight opening and a flue, looking out over Stroud
EXTENSION · 2024

Bungalow extension and new roof, Stroud

A single-storey extension and a whole new roof over a 1960s bungalow, re-covered in slate with four rooflights and charred-timber fascias.

Designed, built and signed off by Building Control
Holiday chalet with covered porch, balustrade and steps
HOLIDAY UNITS · 2020

Four holiday chalets

One 5 × 4.5 m footprint, four different layouts, built as a small series. Each has an en-suite and a covered porch, and all four are still let year-round.

Planning granted · mobile home route
Reproduced king-post truss above a framed gable in the rebuilt stone barn
FARM BUILDINGS · 2023

Cotswold stone barn rebuild

A roofless, half-collapsed barn brought back: stone walls repaired and rebuilt, the original trusses measured and reproduced like for like, a new roof in reclaimed slate and infill panels clad in waney-edge boards, ready for the owner's planning application.

Rebuilt and re-roofed · stonework managed by us
Open timber canopy with knee-braced posts over picnic tables in a pub garden
EVENT & HOSPITALITY · 2019

Covered garden at a listed pub

A 24 × 6 m covered seating area in a listed pub's grounds, later enclosed with glazing and a raised lounge with a log burner for year-round use.

Planning and listed building consent
Timber-clad house with a long covered veranda on oak posts and a raised deck
HOME · 2014

Mobile home house, Westonbirt

The original build and our first house: a timber-clad home with a long covered veranda on oak posts, a raised deck and a covered outdoor kitchen. Still lived in more than ten years on.

Certificate of Lawfulness · planning led by us

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