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Archive at Shatwell Farm by Hugh Strange Architects

By 2014-02-26T07:18:00

Archive at Shatwell Farm

Source: David Grandorge

Housing an architectural archive on a working farm requires a sensibility both rural and urban

Over the past decade, the once run-down Shatwell Farm in Somerset has enjoyed a remarkable revival of fortune.

In 2008 Skene Catling de la Peña completed the refurbishment and expansion of a disused dairy to create a home for its owner and two years ago Stephen Taylor added a cowshed distinguished by a monumental concrete portico.

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