Located in Brecon, United Kingdom, Bolgoed Maen is a lovely farmhouse redesigned and extended in 2020 by Jones Architects Studio.

Description
This project involves the restoration of and extension to a historic early eighteenth-century Welsh farmhouse in the Brecon Beacons National Park in South Wales. The house is set adjoining a complex of outbuildings centered around a courtyard with views towards the majestic peaks of the Brecon Beacons.
Our approach to the building had to be mindful of the sensitive surroundings and its historic nature whilst achieving an increase in floor area and a complete refurbishment of the property for the family. There was a clear opportunity to develop the building in two sections: a sensitive restoration of a traditional Welsh farmhouse whilst allowing us to design a contemporary rear extension. We secured planning permission to remove a lean-to extension, restore the rear elevation and extend into the garden at ground floor level with a timber link rising to steel framed timber extension. Externally we designed the extension to fit in with the form of traditional Welsh farms in that the rear extension resembles a stand-alone building lightly linked to the stone farmhouse. In contrast to the white lime-washed farmhouse, we stained the extension?s timber cladding black to contrast strongly with the host building, with reference to the local vernacular. The extension was carefully placed not to disturb the exi...