Located in the shadow of Saint Michael’s Mount on the coast in southern Cornwall, an agrarian longhouse was re-envisioned by Tuckey Design Studio who defined an entirely new living space while remaining sympathetic to the 400-year-old original structure. The house once served both domestic and agricultural functions with the residence in the upper half, situated at the top of the hill, and the animals and stores in the lower. As a result, the building was compartmented into a sequence of smaller rooms. The studio renovated the interior into a four-bedroom family home of well-defined spaces and sustainable innovations, all while retaining the character of the building. The result is a mutual relationship between old and new. Join us for a tour.

Photography by James Brittain courtesy of Tuckey Design Studio.

The house had undergone changes over time which resulting in various style and material combinations. “This was embraced rather than to be homogenized into anything overtly pure of form,” the designers explain. The new addition, a dry-stone-wall extension that cantilevers out of the house on the upper level, was developed in this vein as seen in the exterior where the original white limed pelt building flows into oak slats and stonework.