A gritstone field barn standing alone in moorland behind a dry-stone wall

Hope Valley House

Hope Valley, Peak DistrictArchitecture + Interior Design20225,900 sq ft

Location: Hope Valley, Peak District
Scope: Architecture + Interior Design
Completed: 2022
Area: 550 m² · 5,900 sq ft

A gritstone field barn, roofless when we first saw it, converted into a house for a family who walk the valley every day. The stone was kept, the openings were kept, and the new work was made from the same few materials as the old.

Setting

Built from the valley

The gritstone for the repairs came from a field wall that had fallen on the same farm. The new roof is Derbyshire stone slate, laid in diminishing courses as the old one was.

Inside the barn during the strip-out, with timber stalls and light through the old doors

Adaptive reuse

Keeping the barn a barn

The cart openings became the main windows, the stalls became the rhythm of the plan. From the field the building still reads as it always has.

A bedroom with linen bedding and plaster-panelled walls

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