Far House Farm

OHA delivered a high quality, locally-appropriate contemporary design with exemplary energy efficiency and sustainability standard. This was achieved working closely with client, guiding them through the development of the sketch scheme, the submission of planning applications, building regulations applications, the tendering process and finally overseeing construction on site until completion.

Natural and Environmentally Sustainable Materials

The material palette is one of high quality, natural and environmentally sustainable which celebrate the local vernacular, but with a contemporary execution: Black Mountain rubble stone walling; vertically stained timber cladding; dark grey standing seam roof and the link building’s green sedum roof provides a habitat for bees and insects.

Creating a Visual Break Between Historic and Contemporary

The proposed single storey link structure was re-constructed in rubble stone walling and roofed with a green sedum roof, creating a visual break between historic and contemporary. Internally, the 20th century floor joists were removed within the 18th century stone-built element, creating a single volume space with a mezzanine bay at the western end.

A Contemporary Reinterpretation of Historic Building Typology.

Far House Farm sits in a typically rural Herefordshire landscape, lying in close proximity to a Grade II Listed building, as well as a loosely dispersed mix of seventeenth and eighteenth century buildings, mostly of agricultural origins.

Cues were taken from the historic proportions of the existing farmhouse, with a contemporary reinterpretation of historic building typology to provide the single storey link structure and a two storey extension.