BUSHETT RISE

One estate. Seven homes.
Three distinct acts of architecture.

Bushett Rise is unlike anything else in our portfolio. On a single site — a former working farm in the Essex countryside — we undertook three fundamentally different acts of building. A Grade II listed barn, given four new lives. A lost farmhouse, rebuilt with reverence. Two new homes, designed with the confidence to stand for centuries.

Seven homes. One coherent estate. Each building a distinct response to its own brief — and all of them at home in the same landscape.

1

FARMHOUSE

3

BARN CONVERSIONS

1

CART LODGE

2

COURTYARD HOUSES

A working farm in the Essex countryside, returned to life.

Bushett Farm sits in a landscape that has barely changed in centuries — rolling fields, mature hedgerows, and the particular quality of silence that only genuine countryside delivers. The farmstead had its own working history written into every building on the site. Our responsibility was to read that history carefully, and respond to it with equal care.

The result is an estate that feels as though it has always been here — because most of it has.

Seven homes.
Three collections.

Each collection at Bushett Rise has its own identity — shaped by the building it came from, or the ambition it was built to express. Together, they form an estate of genuine variety, held together by the same discipline of craft and care.

The
Farmhouse.

The crown jewel — rebuilt from the original with reverence. Soulful farmhouse architecture; open-plan contemporary living. The building that gives the whole estate its sense of arrival.

The
Barn Conversions.

A Grade II listed barn given four lives, and a cart lodge reimagined as a home of exceptional character. Each shaped by the original fabric of the buildings — and each unmistakably its own.

The
Courtyard Houses.

Two contemporary homes centred on a distinctive private courtyard. Designed with the conviction that what is built with care today becomes the architectural heritage of the next century.

1 — THE FARMHOUSE

Rebuilt with reverence.
The crown jewel of the estate.

The original Bushett Farmhouse was gone before we arrived — but its presence was still felt in the landscape. We rebuilt it not as a replica, but as an act of genuine homage: a five-bedroom home whose architecture carries the soul of the original, while its generous open-plan kitchen and living spaces are entirely of the present. The building that arrives first, and stays with you longest.

2 — THE BARN CONVERSIONS

A Grade II listed barn.
Three homes, each entirely its own.

The listed barn was the starting point for the entire project — the building that set the ambition. Rather than treat it as a single space, we worked within its structure to find three individual homes: each 4–5 bedrooms, each shaped by a different reading of the original volumes, each with a bold character that could only have come from this building. The historic fabric has been preserved throughout. The craft of the conversion is present in every room.

2+ — LITTLE COTE HOUSE

The cart lodge remade.
As a home of its own.

Little Cote House began as the farm's cart lodge — a building defined by utility and honest construction. We saw in it something worth preserving: original barn details, a particular quality of light, and the character that only comes from age. Reimagined as a two-bedroom home, it is proof that scale has no bearing on quality — and that the smallest building on a site can carry as much distinction as any other.

3 — THE COURTYARD HOUSES

Built for now.
For the heritage of tomorrow.

Not every building on a historic site needs to pretend to be old. The two Courtyard Houses at Bushett Rise are unambiguously contemporary — four and five bedrooms, each centred on a distinctive private courtyard that defines how the home relates to the landscape around it. They were designed with the same discipline that guides our conversions: the conviction that what is built with genuine care and integrity today becomes the character of a place a century from now.