A small, dilapidated outbuilding, originally used to house livestock, has been renovated to provide a one-room private studio space within a linear village on the southern edge of the North Yorkshire Moors national park. 

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Architects: Hugh Strange Architects

Location: North York Moors National Park, Pickering YO18 8RN, United Kingdom

Architect In Charge: Hugh Strange Architects

Main Contractors: Fred & Simon Grimmer

Area: 29.0 m2

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: David Grandorge

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Text description provided by the architects. A small, dilapidated outbuilding, originally used to house livestock, has been renovated to provide a one-room private studio space within a linear village on the southern edge of the North Yorkshire Moors national park. 
Axonometric

The existing walls, window and door openings of the building have been retained, their modesty disguising the transformed character of the interior space. Inside, a concrete column, located off centre within the room, supports one corner of a mezzanine deck, and rises to prop the ridge beam part way along its span. The quarry tiles of the floor rotate around the base of the column. To the rear of the space sits a line of built-in bookshelves, above it, a large new rooflight. 

© David Grandorge

The project was completed by a father and son team of builders from the ne...