Homebuilding & Renovating

CASE STUDY: THE DAIRY BARN

In the summer of 2017, Savills estate agents listed ‘a rarely available opportunity to create a fabulous countryside home’. Located in open countryside on the border of Oxfordshire and Northamptonshire, this ‘opportunity’ comprised a dilapidated former dairy barn with permitted development rights and a draft design for conversion to a 320m2 dwelling with

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