Property News · June 28, 2024

‘A nearby farmer took the whole herd’: how a couple turned a cowshed into a dream home for artists


A former dairy business now hosts a thriving artistic community – and a spectacular converted barnSuzanne Blank Redstone and her husband, Peter Redstone, have lived on the same Devon farm, nestled in a tree-fringed valley a mile from the sea, for 50 years. The couple’s current home was once their cowshed, a simple, functional structure that they built in 1979 to shelter their herd of Jerseys over winter.Today, it’s an architectural statement, albeit a very livable one. It was longlisted for the Royal Institute of British Architects’ house of the year in 2023 and bagged a prestigious Manser medal, too, while a photograph of the property was selected for this year’s Royal Academy of Arts’ Summer Exhibition, which runs in London until 18 August. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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