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Architect & Builder | Chippenham: Wiltshire
Artel31 | Architect & Builder | Chippenham: Wiltshire

House by the River. Chippenham A response to the unique urban site adjacent to the river and parkland, House by the Rive...
01/09/2026

House by the River. Chippenham

A response to the unique urban site adjacent to the river and parkland, House by the River was tightly constrained by the conservation area and adjacent listed buildings.

Behind a curved linear boundary wall the house is divided into two forms with a linking curved flat green roof. Centring the scheme is a cantilevered rammed concrete chimney skewered through the link.

A boathouse connects to the garden landscaping and the river beyond. All existing trees were retained, and the old apple tree is heavily featured by the glazed gable as it breaks the raised decking area defining both internal and external spaces.

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📷 Pete Helme
📷 Dan Watkiss

House through the Red Gate. Cotswold border.Detail.
30/08/2026

House through the Red Gate. Cotswold border.

Detail.

Taking cues from tin-roofed pole barns, prevalent in many old farmyards, we assembled a large open-plan kitchen/garden r...
27/08/2026

Taking cues from tin-roofed pole barns, prevalent in many old farmyards, we assembled a large open-plan kitchen/garden room to link the two disparate sides of the house.

With the occasional nod to the red moon gate, the interior of this home holds a quiet luxury, allowing the Cotswold stone and heritage of the farm buildings remain as the focal point.

📷 Charles Emerson
Styling Elizabeth Snow

House through the Red Gate. Cotswold border. Like so many Cotswold conversions, House through the Red Gate was formed fr...
25/08/2026

House through the Red Gate.
Cotswold border.

Like so many Cotswold conversions, House through the Red Gate was formed from two isolated listed Cotswold-stone byres. Our clients wanted to create a single home by connecting both byres and their garden.

We negotiated with the conservation officers by using its fully glazed walls to integrate the courtyard without impacting the historic forms. An LVL dual cantilevered roof which appears paper thick, was used to protect the internal spaces from the sun and rain. Ensuring a contemporary and sustainable solution without negatively impacting the listed heritage asset.

The new gatehouse was used as the front door maintaining privacy from the shared driveway of the farmyard cluster.

Credit: Idealcombi UK Pure view windows

📷 Charles Emerson

Farmhouse in the Fields. North WiltshireStairway details. Windows Idealcombi UK Steelwork by Fieldgrove Engineering. 📷 C...
23/08/2026

Farmhouse in the Fields. North Wiltshire

Stairway details.

Windows Idealcombi UK
Steelwork by Fieldgrove Engineering.

📷 Charles Emerson

Farmhouse in the Fields. North WiltshireDrawing from the site’s own colour palette; the fields, trees and wildflowers wh...
20/08/2026

Farmhouse in the Fields. North Wiltshire

Drawing from the site’s own colour palette; the fields, trees and wildflowers which form the home’s setting. The spaces and layouts of the interior lend themselves are designed to mingle with the garden and fields emboldening both.

Kitchen by Stroud Kitchens.
Lighting from Hay - Nelson Bubble Saucer pendant. HAY
Small spotlights - Corston Corston Architectural Detail

📷 Charles Emerson
Styling Elizabeth Snow

Farmhouse in the Fields. North WiltshireThe design concept here was to minimise the physical, environmental and visual f...
18/08/2026

Farmhouse in the Fields. North Wiltshire

The design concept here was to minimise the physical, environmental and visual footprint of the property while simultaneously ensuring that the building and its setting felt intrinsically connected, like an old stone farm building nestled amongst its fields.

The built form is primarily created by two parallel barns of contrasting and evolutionary aesthetic, then bound by existing and new stone walls. The walls enclose and divide the domestic site physically rather than overtly visually, and the mass of the building pushed back in old garden to the point it overhangs the historic stone boundary wall.

The larger of the barns was raised above the ground plain to allow the hills to still bound the approach and a cantilevered metal ramp was used to emphasise this disconnect of the building and the land.

📷 Charles Emerson

Already a RIBA South 2026 Building of the Year award winner, House in a Barn is a radical reinterpretation of what you m...
16/08/2026

Already a RIBA South 2026 Building of the Year award winner, House in a Barn is a radical reinterpretation of what you might consider a ‘traditional barn conversion’ and is now a finalist in the Structural Timber Awards 2026.

Giraffe Engineering and Artel 31 are up for two categories in Private Housing Project of the Year and also Architect of the Year.

Wish us luck!

House in a Barn. Detail.📷 Charles Emerson
13/08/2026

House in a Barn.

Detail.

📷 Charles Emerson

We are thrilled to be finalists in two catagories of the Structural Timber Awards for House in a Barn. Private Housing P...
11/08/2026

We are thrilled to be finalists in two catagories of the Structural Timber Awards for House in a Barn.

Private Housing Project Of The Year
and Architect Of The Year.

Giraffe Engineering
Artel31



📷 Charles Emerson

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