Permission has just been received with Ben Reed Architects to reconfigure and extend an existing barn by responding to the character of the area with the ‘natural’ landscape being a primary focus for the proposal. Terrain has dictated the form of the building and garden with terraces at different levels designed to partially embed the house within the ground and surrounded it with planting merging with the woodland to the flanks. Split-levels help create individual spaces which will allow creation of usable gardens for the new family home which looks out over the River Lox and farmland beyond.