Barrington Court

The farm buildings at Barrington Court were built in the 1920s as a model to improve efficiency and industrialise agriculture.  Set in the grade II* registered park and garden of the grade I listed Barrington Court house, the grade II listed farm buildings were mostly empty, used mostly for storage by the National Trust, who now own the estate.

As the project architect while at Levitate, Sarah led the project from carrying out a feasibility study through to gaining planning permission and listed building consent. The project including rehousing the estate’s visitor entrance and services into the farm ranges.  A new entrance was forged from the re-landscaped car park, and while respecting the character of the buildings, ticketing, shop and a new much larger café were all housed in the larger spaces, with craft workshops in the smaller ones.  The farmyard became a spill-out area for the café and shop, with the new surfacing incorporating traces of the historic model farm arrangement as well as imprints from the modern uses.  A biomass boiler to run the heating and hot water for the estate was housed in a new building close by.

Images: Levitate