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Forty Acre Oast

An exceptional new paragraph 84 dwelling on a discreet plot behind a converted oast & barn satellite farmstead in the rural Kent countryside.

Forty Acre Oast

On the 22nd November 2024 Ashford Borough Council delegated approval for this exceptional paragraph 84 scheme near Woodchurch, Kent. The scheme presents a composition of free-standing ‘garden’ walls to the arrival courtyard. The expression of the walls and materiality are familiar to the local defining characteristics.


The arrival courtyard is framed on three sides by the building blocks. The arrangement creates a cluster of pavilions separated by expressed threshold spaces. Defined glazed openings frame key views to the surrounding pond, gardens and landscape.

The design language achieves a clarity of relationship between the wall and roof elements. The roof forms respond to the internal function, vaulted roofs over principal spaces, flat roofs over circulation and support spaces. The planar free standing masonry walls address the arrival courtyard and create a strong integration of the building and landscape. Behind the walls are positioned the building blocks or ‘pavilions’ characterised by vaulted roofs varying in height and form. The composition is intended to create a rich roofscape that references the oast house and local vernacular. The rooflights are integral to the building summer cooling strategy,

The proposals were scrutinised and ultimately fully supported by the Ashford Design Panel and had gained lots of local support.

Thanks to Axiom Planning and DLA Landscape Architecture for all your hard work and expertise in helping to achieve this wonderful permission.

On the 22nd November 2024 Ashford Borough Council delegated approval for this exceptional paragraph 84 scheme near Woodchurch, Kent. The scheme presents a composition of free-standing ‘garden’ walls to the arrival courtyard. The expression of the walls and materiality are familiar to the local defining characteristics.


The arrival courtyard is framed on three sides by the building blocks. The arrangement creates a cluster of pavilions separated by expressed threshold spaces. Defined glazed openings frame key views to the surrounding pond, gardens and landscape.

The design language achieves a clarity of relationship between the wall and roof elements. The roof forms respond to the internal function, vaulted roofs over principal spaces, flat roofs over circulation and support spaces. The planar free standing masonry walls address the arrival courtyard and create a strong integration of the building and landscape. Behind the walls are positioned the building blocks or ‘pavilions’ characterised by vaulted roofs varying in height and form. The composition is intended to create a rich roofscape that references the oast house and local vernacular. The rooflights are integral to the building summer cooling strategy,

The proposals were scrutinised and ultimately fully supported by the Ashford Design Panel and had gained lots of local support.

Thanks to Axiom Planning and DLA Landscape Architecture for all your hard work and expertise in helping to achieve this wonderful permission.

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Floor plan

Respecting building hierarchy

The new dwelling is located discreetly to the rear of the oast, behind a mature hedge and sat within a distinct well contained plot. The existing linear access to the site sets up a strong sense of arrival to a satellite farmstead, which was felt important to retain and not dominate through the introduction of a new dwelling. In other words this is not a farmstead which should have a principle farmhouse so it is important that the building hierarchy is well understood & not adversely affected.


Accessing the new property initiates a sense of arriving at a subservient building to the oast, which is accentuated by the sense of arriving at a walled garden.

The plan is organised beneath a series of pitched roofs which sit behind these walls and clad with a diagonal metal tile colour palette which is informed by the variation in colour seen on the oast and varied slightly between each building element relating to different contextual influences.

The design is benefitting from engagement with and endorsement by Ashford Design Review Panel

The new dwelling is located discreetly to the rear of the oast, behind a mature hedge and sat within a distinct well contained plot. The existing linear access to the site sets up a strong sense of arrival to a satellite farmstead, which was felt important to retain and not dominate through the introduction of a new dwelling. In other words this is not a farmstead which should have a principle farmhouse so it is important that the building hierarchy is well understood & not adversely affected.


Accessing the new property initiates a sense of arriving at a subservient building to the oast, which is accentuated by the sense of arriving at a walled garden.

The plan is organised beneath a series of pitched roofs which sit behind these walls and clad with a diagonal metal tile colour palette which is informed by the variation in colour seen on the oast and varied slightly between each building element relating to different contextual influences.

The design is benefitting from engagement with and endorsement by Ashford Design Review Panel

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