Farmstead

Farm buildings are under threat in all parts of the world, more so than any other building type. It is not only the case that changing agricultural practices have rendered historic barns, granaries, pigsties, and cattle sheds redundant. Generally removed from population centres, they tend to escape the attention of building conservationists and developers and fall into disrepair. One way to address their decline is to reconceptualise them as museum pieces, inviting the public to step into life on a working farm inspired by a fixed point in history. Another is to inject new energy into their historic fabric with sensitive and appropriate change of use. Edmund Sumner Edmund Sumner Edmund Sumner Attracted by the beautiful lands... More