Homebuilding & Renovating

A light touch

“ We’d been looking for ages for an old farmhouse with land as we run a hotel for dogs and wanted somewhere suitable for the dogs to safely run and play,” begins Jenny Marriott. “We spotted Ivy Farm while surfing the internet in the middle of the night when we should have been sleeping.”

Undeterred by the run-down state of the Gloucestershire farmhouse – and its Grade-II listed status – Jenny and her partner Tim Stokes could see its potential and got in touch with Martin Hall of Hall + Bednarczyk Architects.

A neglected building

“Despite its listed building status, the building (much of which originates from the 17th century) had suffered from

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