{"id":1347,"date":"2025-07-25T10:30:48","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T10:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angesfinanciers.org\/?p=1347"},"modified":"2025-08-01T15:10:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T15:10:32","slug":"rural-office-bookends-delfyd-farmhouse-in-wales-with-larch-clad-extensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angesfinanciers.org\/index.php\/2025\/07\/25\/rural-office-bookends-delfyd-farmhouse-in-wales-with-larch-clad-extensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Rural Office bookends Delfyd Farmhouse in Wales with larch-clad extensions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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British architecture studio Rural Office<\/a> has added larch<\/a>-clad extensions<\/a> on either side of this farmhouse<\/a> on the south Welsh coast, bringing flexible social spaces to the remote property.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Carmarthen-based practice was commissioned to extend Delfyd Farmhouse, a traditional stone cottage surrounded by dunes on the Gower Peninsula in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.<\/p>\n

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Delfyd Farmhouse is a remote stone cottage in Wales<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Built around 1895, the farmhouse’s ground floor needed expanding to create more space for the clients to entertain family and friends.<\/p>\n

Rural Office designed two “modest” extensions on either side of the existing building, which follows a simple rectangular plan and features Georgian sash windows on its main facade.<\/p>\n

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Rural Office bookended the home with larch-clad extensions<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The new additions were scaled to accentuate the hierarchy of the farmhouse and contain a new guest wing on the east side and a dining and sitting room to the west.<\/p>\n

“Together, they can be seen as an agglomeration of rural typologies \u2013 reflecting the language and scale of other settlements where ad-hoc structures are assembled over time to support the changing needs of the occupants,” said Niall Maxwell, principal at Rural Office<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Pitched zinc roofs top the extensions<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The guest wing, which also doubles up as a gym for the client, includes a bedroom, bathroom, living room and kitchen, with a separate entrance from the driveway.<\/p>\n

The new dining and sitting room sits next to the existing kitchen and provides more space for entertaining with panoramic views out to the hills in the south, and coastline in the north.<\/p>\n