StudioNorth secured detailed planning consent for six new design-led homes at North End Farm, Longframlington in Autumn 2024. The scheme is now under construction and is due for completion late 2026.
The development is arranged around a courtyard, drawing inspiration from traditional Northumbrian farmsteads while reinterpreting rural forms for contemporary living. A carefully curated mix of dwelling typologies provides variety, character, and identity, creating a strong sense of place at the edge of settlement boundary.
Each home combines traditional materials and proportions with modern detailing. Rustic sandstone walls and dual-pitched slate roofs are paired with accents of vertical timber cladding and recessed entrance porticoes. Dwelling form and orientation create private courtyards and optimise orientation to maximise light, views, and amenity.
This new phase builds on the success of the adjacent first phase, which delivered ten high-quality homes. Together, the two phases provide over 21,000 square feet of distinctive residential accommodation that showcases StudioNorth’s commitment to contemporary rural architecture in Northumberland.
Holiday Let Barn Conversion, Lowick, Northumberland
StudioNorth provided architectural design services from concept through to detailed design for the conversion of a traditional stone granary and an agricultural outbuilding into two bespoke holiday let dwellings in Northumberland.
Located on a rural smallholding just south of Lowick, the project transforms underused farm buildings into distinctive, high-quality accommodation.
The design combines Corten steel and black profiled cladding with the existing sandstone walls and slate roof, creating a striking balance of traditional Northumbrian character and contemporary architecture.
A strong focus was placed on sustainable design. Both holiday cottages were constructed using a super-insulated building fabric, significantly reducing energy demand and ensuring a warm, comfortable environment year-round.
Completed in summer 2024, the project has attracted national recognition, featuring in The Sunday Times and being listed as a Special project in the Architects’ Journal Buildings Library 2025.
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Our client sought a compact, modern retreat that exemplified contemporary design and living.
In response, we crafted a sleek atelier unit featuring an elevated living space enveloped in black zinc and warm red cedar, set atop a natural stone plinth.
The Carriage Home is constructed using a light-gauge steel frame and was developed as a prototype for the North American and Canadian markets.
A blend of traditional and modern family living for six stately residences completed late 2023 / early 2024 in Northumberland.
The homes comprise a L-shape plan configuration with traditional, dual pitched slate roofs, rustic sandstone walls complimented with zinc clad orangeries and entrance porticoes.
The dwellings create private courtyards, optimise aspect and orientation to create place, provide character and identity to this edge of settlement development.
Our proposals for nine dwellings are based on a traditional design approach rooted to the village context.
The residential arrangement forms an attractive transition into the settlement strengthening the local development grain, enhancing character and identity.
Scheme development completed late 2023.
Our proposals present a pair of semi-detached four-bedroom properties due for construction in 2024.
Charred ash cladding provides a distinctive profile which is extended forward to provide sheltered outdoor balcony space for breakfasting whilst framing key views towards the North Sea coastline.
Our rural typologies continue to evolve in Northumberland. The Longhouse presents a linear, home which presents a double height living space and “room in roof” bedroom accommodation over.
The exterior is clad using charred ash cladding and black slate which provides a visually recessive design solution to help mitigate visual impact.
The rustic materials are continued through into the interiors to provide character and a unique sense of home.
In summer 2021 we secured planning consent for our landmark design for 169 PRS apartments.
The design employed a stepped building form which punctuates a primary urban threshold into Newcastle’s up and coming Helix Quarter.
The rich metallic envelope features an ordered fenestration grid providing excellent aspect and natural light for the living spaces. The copper façade floats above a solid masonry plinth and active ground floor uses which bring life to the street.
Our proposals reinvent the site and original structure formerly occupied by the Northern Sinfonia Orchestra.
A distinctive architectural expression is created which extends vertically through a stepping roof form; a contextual piece that mediates scale and employs an industrial aesthetic to enhance urban character along the Ouseburn.
We were appointed in 2023 to secure planning approval for twelve new homes near Hamsterley woods in the north east of England.
Further to our Reserved Matters planning approval we are looking forward to these homes coming to market in 2024.
A blend of traditional forms and local materials based around two courtyards, the residential development creates sense of place echoing the rural morphology of the village.
Beamish Park is a distinctive and unique tourist village destination located in beautiful countryside surroundings and ancient woodland.
Further to our outline approval in 2020, we are underway with developing a Reserved Matters scheme design for what will become one of the finest leisure and residential developments in the north east of England.
A contextual scheme of four stone dwellings arranged about a semi-private courtyard with extended views into the countryside. Modern detailing with zinc dormers and feature double height bays articulate the rural forms.
StudioNorth recently developed concept designs for a series of contemporary cabin / pods for launch in the British Columbia, Canadian market.
Natural, sustainable materials are used in these carbon neutral homes which can be deployed “Off Grid”.
A beautiful former agricultural site located on a prominent ridge just south of Darras Hall, Ponteland with northerly views towards the Cheviots.
Our proposals comprise the conversion of a milking parlour, granary, cart shed, bothy and farmhouse into four new dwellings.
The scheme provides modern, sustainable living in the countryside whilst retaining sense of place, character and heritage of the former agricultural uses.
The residential design followed design concepts exploring modern commercial and retail opportunities close to Newcastle set in a rural location.
An Arts and Crafts redux with dramatic kerb appeal.
Positioned overlooking the Derwent Valley, with large picture windows creating a unique home in the countryside.
Currently under construction after successful planning approval in 2022.
Western red cedar, black metal, stone and glass form a bespoke 3000sqft home on the edge of a forest clearing east of Comox, British Columbia.
The L-shaped plan comprises a double height living wing with vaulted ceilings which extend out into deep overhanging eaves that shelter an outdoor firepit and BBQ terrace.
A two bedroom “Carriage House” is situated north of the main home to complete the estate.
