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Private Project - Barn Conversion

3 Barn Conversion

Company: Cadman Construction Ltd  |  Category: Listed Buildings, Residential

Environmental Standards and Build Quality - This highly complex refurbishment of a private historic barn (built c.1700) in Essex and making up part of a Grade II listed property, involved retaining the existing roof and using the original rafters as key features of the stunning building. Repairing and replacing rotten timbers to the cart lodge, installing new floors, alongside a modern air source heat pump to drive down the property's carbon footprint and energy bills, ensuring it is fit for the next century, achieving an EPC B rating, outstanding for a building of this age!

Specialist skills - Our specialist heritage carpenters enabled us to preserve the historic and eye-catching wattle & daub wall, whereby vertical wooden stakes, or wattles, are woven with horizontal twigs and branches, and then daubed with clay or mud – one of the oldest known methods for making weatherproof structure and something the client, ourselves and Historic England were determined to preserve.

• Old Barn

• Before Conversion

• Outside - On Completion

• Outside - After Completion

• Outside - On Completion

• Outside - After Completion

• Wattle & Daub Wall

• Kitchen/Living Room - After Completion

• Retaining original rafters

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• Livingroom & Kitchen on Completion

• Retaining Original Features