The existing house and farm buildings are constructed from rubble stone and painted plaster with slate and metal roofs. As the farmstead developed over the decades, in–situ concrete was used in an ad–hoc manner to consolidate older stonework and also to create a series of ‘plinths’ extending from each outbuilding to mediate the surrounding sloping ground and form functional external spaces. This augmentative approach and method of construction allowed the farm to adapt and change over time as required.

This material forms the primary structural and spatial element of the latest adaption, taking the form of raised plinths and an expressed column grid that defines internal and external spaces. Between the columns is infilled with a varying rhythm of either re–used rubble stone from a demolished outbuilding, or large hardwood windows, depending on appropriate views, light, intimacy or openness. The columns are connected with a continuous ring beam in the same in–situ concrete, that in turn supports the base of the barrel vaulted roofs. These copper barrelled forms refer to surrounding rolling hills, while also striking a kinship with the curved metal roof of the outermost outbuilding in the cluster, helping to unify the new into the whole.

Internally, new vaulted rooms have a soft yet lofty spatial quality, and as the floor rises and falls with existing ground levels, the resulting compression or contraction of floor to ceiling height adjusts the degree of intimacy appropriate to various spaces.