Surrey Homes | SH27 | January 2017 | Health & Beauty supplement inside

This page: The den’s walls are covered in corrugated iron, which
Ally retrieved from various local farmyards, or reclaimed scaffold
boards, and a tractor tyre has been topped with planks and
turned into a table
room, lined with pale-blue painted boards and honeycoloured
beams. A wood-burner adds to the cosiness.
The kitchen area comes with a butler sink and huge,
chunky butcher’s block, complementing a country-style
table and cream-painted dresser that is home to an array
of blue and white willow-pattern crockery. Overhead,
stencilled black numbers on the beams are a reminder
of the oast’s former purpose... if the hop gardens visible
from the windows aren’t enough of a reminder.
Behind the living and eating area, the three roundels of
the oast have been ingeniously converted into two circular
bedrooms with four-metre-high ceilings. The middle
roundel, on the other hand, has been transformed into two
curved-walled wash rooms, one with a classic claw-footed
cast iron bath and the other a walk-in wet room.
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