Careful restoration of a flint cottage and barn: new thatch, traditional plaster, steel-framed glazing and restored oak beams.
A tired flint cottage and adjoining barn in Walsingham was restored with respect for the original building. The roofs were stripped and scaffolded, and the barn was re-thatched where it meets the clay-tiled cottage roof.
We rebuilt the chimney breasts and finished the walls in a traditional plaster that suits the old flint and brick. The original oak beams and roof timbers were kept and left exposed, and new openings were formed in the flint walls for full-height steel-framed glazing and double doors, with new brick surrounds to match the existing.
Underfloor heating went in beneath new terracotta floors, and the street frontage was finished with new painted joinery, so the cottages look right on a historic street while being warm and comfortable inside.
