Wheatley Oast

Wheatley Oast, Hampshire — listed oast house, consented scheme | Islington Architects
Design visualisation of the consented scheme at Wheatley Oast, with lit rooms set into the hillside
Project 087 · Consented scheme

Wheatley Oast

Hampshire · Grade II listed
LocationKingsley, Hampshire
DesignationGrade II listed · South Downs National Park
ConsentsA series of planning and listed building consents, 2007–2011
StatusConsented, not built
One of the most ambitious consents we have secured: a glass and stone extension set into the hillside beside a Grade II listed oast house in the South Downs National Park.
01Subterranean glass extension
02Ground and first floor rear extensions
03Pool and garage set into the landscape
Between 2007 and 2011, we secured a series of planning and listed building consents for Wheatley Oast, a Grade II listed oast house near Kingsley, now within the South Downs National Park.
The final scheme, granted in December 2011, replaced a rear conservatory with a lower ground floor extension dug into the slope, new ground and first floor rooms to the rear, an outdoor swimming pool, and a garage and pool building recessed into the landscape.
Design visualisation of Wheatley Oast from above at dusk
The idea
Stone above, glass below
The new rooms sit beneath the garden, behind a long wall of frameless glass that follows the fall of the land. From above, the lawn runs almost to the oast, leaving the roundel and the four kiln roofs as the dominant forms.
The extension is built in stone and glass, so it reads clearly as new while keeping to the materials of the listed building.
The consents
Building the case, step by step
The scheme was developed through a sequence of applications: a basement with a gym, wine store and games room in 2007; a pool and underground garage with a glazed elevation in 2008; and the full extension in 2011.
The scheme was not built, but the consents show what a listed building in a protected landscape can accommodate when the design is carefully argued.
Gallery
Existing and proposed
Wheatley Oast as it stands today
Wheatley Oast as it stands today.
Design visualisation: the lower ground floor opening to the garden
Design visualisation: the lower ground floor opening to the garden.
Design visualisation from the 2011 application
Design visualisation from the 2011 application.
Design visualisation: the glass drum and stair, rising through both floors
Design visualisation: the glass drum and stair, rising through both floors.
Drawings
The consented scheme
Planning drawings for the scheme. Select any drawing to open it full size.
Section A–A: the new lower ground floor set into the slope beneath the oast
Section A–A: the new lower ground floor set into the slope beneath the oast.
Proposed rear elevation: a stone and glass base beneath the kiln roofs
Proposed rear elevation: a stone and glass base beneath the kiln roofs.
Proposed lower ground floor plan
Proposed lower ground floor plan.
Proposed ground floor plan, with the elevated terrace
Proposed ground floor plan, with the elevated terrace.
Site plan: the oast, terrace, landscape and pool
Site plan: the oast, terrace, landscape and pool.
Proposed south elevation
Proposed south elevation.
Proposed ground floor plan, earlier consented version
Proposed ground floor plan, earlier consented version.
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