052026

Colehurst

A new minimalist extension to a hundred-year-old farmhouse at Colehurst in Herefordshire, for a private client.

The rammed-earth extension seen from the garden, with the brick farmhouse and its chimneys behind — 01 The extension from the garden

Project information

Year: 2026
Location: Colehurst, Herefordshire, UK
Client: Private
Status: In design
Collaborators: —

Colehurst is a hundred-year-old farmhouse in Herefordshire. The project adds a single-storey modernist extension to it: a low, flat-roofed volume in rammed earth, whose horizontal layers read quietly against the white rendered walls and pitched gables of the original house.

Inside, the extension opens the farmhouse to its grounds — a warm, minimal living and dining space organised around a board-formed concrete fireplace, with concrete floors, plastered walls and wide glazing to the garden. The palette was chosen to sit with the old house rather than compete with it: rammed earth, concrete, plaster, oak and cane.

Minimalist living and dining room with a board-formed concrete fireplace and wood-burning stove — 02 Living and dining room with the concrete fireplace

Open living and dining room with white glulam beams, a walnut sideboard and a rooflight over the dining table — 03 Living room with the glulam beam ceiling

Elevation of the white farmhouse with the new single-storey rammed-earth extension — 04 The farmhouse and the new extension

Side elevation showing the original gabled farmhouse behind the layered rammed-earth extension — 05 Side elevation: the original house and the new extension

Material moodboard of rammed earth, concrete, oak, cane, leather and wool samples — 06 Material palette — rammed earth, concrete, oak and cane