Architectural details: the ancient oak roof structure in a Norfolk Threshing barn

This beautiful, historic oak roof structure is fully exposed and celebrated in Back to the Garden - a farm shop, deli & café, in a converted Threshing Barn in North Norfolk.

The trusses are unusual in that they have no diagonal struts, which would otherwise make this what is known as a ‘Queen Post’ arrangement. Mortice & tenon joints form the connections. Brick and lime in-fills between a brick framework of piers and ring beam at high level, and lower down the vast walls, are in-fills of brick and flint.

It’s a sumptuous fabric of historic local materials - oak, brick, lime and flint.

Bespoke Stained Glass Panels

For the Mathematician’s House in Hammersmith, we commissioned stained glass artist Flora Jamieson to create bespoke stained glass for the front door side panel, top panel and an internal transom window. Flora’s brief was to create a contemporary geometric panel that echoed the mosaic floor tiles in the hallway. As the original tiles were in a poor condition and quite drab, soaking up light in the narrow corridor, we chose to replace them with modern reproduction mosaics but worked with the client to create a new pattern that took elements from the original tiles, making the most of her background as a mathematician.

Flora drew up with several glass designs based around the star motif from the original tiles, which we repeated in the new floor pattern. Elements in the transom panels were then simplified following feedback from the client, and the three stained glass panels were handmade and installed by Flora towards the end of the project.

These bespoke stained glass panels help to create a flow through the house, while referencing the history of this small terrace and unifying the design of the ground floor.

Flora Jamieson Stained Glass
http://www.florajamieson.co.uk/