
Turning old barns in to hard cash is a great way to get the most of your farm buildings.
I can remember the day when we were first asked by a quantity surveyor that we had been working with if we would be interested in barn conversion work to turn some existing farm buildings into offices.
When a prestigious golf club set in the heart of the Northamptonshire countryside needed substantial work, they turned to the experts at Ashmore to make sure the job was:
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Holdenby is a small hamlet just north of Northampton, set in the grounds of the famous Holdenby House estate. This was a building plot that came up for sale, which a developer friend bought.
Renovating the building in keeping with the surrounding was very challenging but rewarding.
Find out more about how we made sure these properties still worked with the rest of the hamlet.
Harry and Jean said, “On the surface, it is an easily and simply defined place. But hardly that in reality. I take ours for granted. Except when I find myself in someone else’s kitchen, or they in mine, and we are both a bit lost. Then it comes home to me that our place is not exactly conventional. But it suits the two of us, and our lifestyle.”
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Read more about the improvements at Harry’s house
This was an eight bed Georgian farm house that is grade 2 listed and was in very poor condition.
It’s set in about 5 acres with a couple of ponds. Over the past few years, the manor house had been used as a bed and breakfast business venture and they had squeezed en-suite bathrooms into the existing bedrooms.
When the owners decided they wanted to renovate the place, they called Ashmore and now it is much more homely.
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