Surrey Homes | SH56 | June 2019 | Kitchen & Bathroom supplement inside

Above: Keeping the central dining space open, the
first floor gallery landing wraps around the L-shape
of the building. Left: A magnificent French door
leads to the new master bedroom
of the original building, with a candle
chandelier over the huge old table, operated
with a rope pulley that you let down to
light the candles, then hoist up again.
With limestone flagstones on the floor
and a splendid carved stone mantelpiece (an
architectural salvage find, like many pieces in
the house), this space has an almost medieval
grandeur – all the better to set off the clean
lines and glass walls of the new extension,
which you can see across the garden, forming
an L-shape to the original building.
The dining room still retains some classic
features of the original barn – as does the kitchen
it opens in to, still the original one they put in.
“A few years ago I painted it Farrow & Ball
Downpipe and changed the handles for an
instant update,” says Susie. “Now I’m thinking
to paint it dark green and change the work
surfaces to a mad marble – not grey and white, I
like the mad ones. There are always things in the
house I want to change, but I’m not wasteful.”
Walking out of the dining room the opposite
way you come into the other room, which
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