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Planning Approved ✔️ The EyrieTwo years. Hundreds of sketches. One planning approval.We’re delighted to announce that Th...
12/06/2026

Planning Approved ✔️ The Eyrie

Two years. Hundreds of sketches. One planning approval.

We’re delighted to announce that The Eyrie has received full planning approval!

Designed as a replacement dwelling, The Eyrie is carefully composed to sit within its landscape while embracing expansive countryside views and a rich, family-focused way of living.

A series of interlocking forms combine natural stone, timber and slate with contemporary interventions, creating a home that feels both grounded in its setting and confidently modern. To the rear, dramatic cantilevered volumes project over Cotswold dry stone walling, while generous glazing and terraces blur the boundary between house and landscape.

Light, views and family life have driven every design decision, from the open living spaces and double-height entrance hall to the hidden dens and playful moments woven throughout the home.

Curious how it started? Take a look at our previous post for the sketches, plans and design development that helped shape the approved scheme. ➡️

A huge thank you to our clients and consultant team for their patience and support throughout the journey.

The Eyrie | From sketchbook to planning approval ✏️🌿After more than two years of design development, collaboration, refi...
12/06/2026

The Eyrie | From sketchbook to planning approval ✏️🌿

After more than two years of design development, collaboration, refinement and patience, we’re delighted to have secured planning approval for The Eyrie.

These drawings tell the story behind the project. Early concept sketches, plans and elevations that explored how a replacement dwelling could sit comfortably within its landscape while creating a home centred around light, family life and long-distance views.

The architecture is rooted in familiar rural forms, reinterpreted through a contemporary lens. Every line on these drawings represent the many conversations, decisions and refinements that have shaped the final proposal.

The approved design balances contemporary living with a familiar rural language, using a restrained palette of stone, timber and slate to create a home that feels both timeless and of its place.

⬅️ Head to our latest post to see how these sketches evolved into the approved design.

Planning approval officially granted for this striking countryside transformation at Wortheal House!This extensive remod...
14/05/2026

Planning approval officially granted for this striking countryside transformation at Wortheal House!

This extensive remodelling and extension project reimagines an existing rural dwelling as a calm, contemporary family home deeply connected to its landscape setting.

With approval now secured, the design introduces a dramatic standing seam roof form, recessed dormers, natural stone and textured render, all balanced with warm detailing and expansive glazing that frames views across the countryside.

Inside, open-plan living spaces, a double-height entrance void and carefully curated sightlines create a strong relationship between architecture, light and nature, delivering a home that feels both refined and grounded in its surroundings.

The project was designed and developed using immersive 3D modelling, allowing the spaces, proportions and experience to be explored and refined from the earliest stages of the design process.

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Walnut House - interiors shaped around light, flow and everyday family life.The internal layout has been carefully rewor...
01/05/2026

Walnut House - interiors shaped around light, flow and everyday family life.

The internal layout has been carefully reworked to create a generous open-plan kitchen, dining and living space at the heart of the home, with quieter rooms arranged around it for balance and flexibility.

Natural light, warm timber tones, dark accents and layered textures help create a calm, contemporary interior that feels refined but comfortable, a home designed for real daily living, not just the photograph.

A full transformation, inside and out.

Walnut House - a full transformation of a tired suburban home into a calm, contemporary family space.By retaining the or...
01/05/2026

Walnut House - a full transformation of a tired suburban home into a calm, contemporary family space.

By retaining the original form and rebalancing the proportions, the design brings clarity and cohesion to the frontage. A restrained palette of cladding, render and dark-framed glazing creates a confident rhythm, anchored by a full-height gable window that draws light deep into the plan.

Inside, the layout is reworked around openness, flow and connection, placing a generous kitchen and dining space at the heart of the home, with quieter, more intimate spaces wrapped around it.

A considered redesign that feels both rooted and refreshingly new.

A brilliant week with our work experience student, Ninon 👏Tasked with designing a contemporary home for her chosen celeb...
24/04/2026

A brilliant week with our work experience student, Ninon 👏

Tasked with designing a contemporary home for her chosen celebrity client, Olivia Rodrigo, she’s taken this from brief, to sketches, to a fully realised design with confidence and creativity beyond her years. The result? A bold, beautifully considered scheme packed with personality.

Alongside the studio work, Ninon joined us on client design reviews, site visits and construction meetings, getting a real insight into how architecture moves from idea to reality.

We’re incredibly proud of what she’s achieved in just one week, and excited to see where her journey in architecture takes her next.

A little slice of calm carved out of history.As part of a wider renovation of a former village post office building, thi...
20/04/2026

A little slice of calm carved out of history.

As part of a wider renovation of a former village post office building, this once narrow, pokey bathroom has been completely reimagined. Through careful internal structural alterations, we’ve more than doubled its width, creating a space that feels generous, grounded, and quietly luxurious.

All modern finishes were stripped back to reveal the original stonework, now beautifully repointed in breathable lime. Paired with warm timber floors, aged copper, and soft, muted tones, the result is a bathroom that feels both rooted in its past and refined for modern living.

Proof that great design doesn’t just transform spaces, it reveals what was always meant to be there.

Friday Sneak peek…Early-stage sketching ahead of a pre-application submission for a cluster of family homes, carefully a...
10/04/2026

Friday Sneak peek…

Early-stage sketching ahead of a pre-application submission for a cluster of family homes, carefully arranged to sit lightly within their setting.

Balancing contemporary living with a familiar, rural language - exploring form, rhythm and green space across the site.

This stage is all about testing ideas: calm architecture, rooted in the local vernacular, with generous green space woven throughout the site.

Simple, considered, and quietly confident.

More to come… 🌿

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