The design concept can be characterised as an approach to the hierarchy of domestic and agricultural building forms, as well utilising built form to act as a binding agent to the currently disparate external spaces. The proposed form draws upon the evident existing agricultural building fabric as well as the typology of the Linhay barn, a feature historically common to the south west farming landscape. The historic outbuildings on the site bounded a central courtyard and it is likely the arrangement would have comprised elements common in the Linhay, with the open fronted barns facing a central operational farmyard.

The new build elements are represented as a collection of agricultrual outbuildings, forming a newly created south facing courtyard as well as walled garden to the north. The materiality draws upon the suite of materials on site - brick, knapped and field flint as well as clay tile - to give a robust quality. The existing dwelling is finished in plastered external walls and a thatched roof and is instantly recognisable as a domestic residential building. A juxtaposition is therefore formed between this primary element and its ancillary family member. The minimal contemporary detailing free of ornament, the tone and agricultural form of the proposed form intended to reinforce this concept.