invisible) picture window that fills the wall and overlooks the garden. An exposed stone wall signals the original part of the building. Looking up here is endlessly rewarding – the renovations have managed to incorporate the grand proportions of the large corn mill and its stone building.


The flooring provides some clues as to the old and new parts of the house, as well as the lighting. In the older parts of the building, look down and you see heated charcoal limestone flooring. The newer areas give way to white heated porcelain flooring. Spotlights dominate the new areas, while exposed industrial lighting illuminates the older parts of the house. Interior walls vary between exposed stone, perfect plasterwork, oak cladding and exposed blockwork.


A chunky oak floating staircase sets the tone for the locally sourced air dried oak used to such good effect throughout the house – you can find it on floors, other floating staircases and even walls and ceilings. Here the industrial ceiling lights can be activated, complete with exposed galvanised conduit and trunking. “The industrial lighting came from an oil tanker hold. I wanted an industrial feel as this was once a working building, but not too much,” says Simon.


Pausing to look at the small sitting room- come-spare bedroom with its own shower room, and the clever interior window that grabs light from the hallway, you then continue onwards to a suite of three double bedrooms –


32 www.sbhonline.co.uk november/december 2019


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