Cowshed

Artist Suzanne Blank Redstone and her husband Peter Redstone have lived at Middle Rocombe Farm since the early 1970s. Fifteen years ago they began converting the farm buildings into a housing community: Cowshed is the final element and now contains an artist studio, office and a home, with rich connections to the surrounding landscape.

Almost all of the original cowshed has been retained, with locally sourced concrete blocks and cedar boarding enhancing its straightforward materials palette. Inside, the exposed structure and surfaces continue this acknowledgement of Cowshed’s robust agricultural character.

Cowshed demonstrates how even the most prosaic industrial structures can be reused and repurposed to make affordable, playful and welcoming homes.