Counterto the slightly hunkered down sound of its name-which actually derives from a Bronze-age barrow on the horizon to the west -the Barrow House sits vividly beacon-like in the landscape. Its most striking element is its Cor-ten-clad, pitch-roofed upper section -which in the months since it was built has naturally oxidised to a streaky orange, glowing in the winter sun againstthe gentle greens of the surrounding fields. It appears to sit at ground level; a relatively modest, blank-faced, barn-shaped block. In fact, it forms just the first floor of the house, which extends over a spreading concrete-framed lower floor, half-buried in the slope below with a glazed front. Also hidden from the road is a black Trespa-clad, steel-framed bedroom 'pod' which breaks out from the Cor-ten block's western flank. Cantilevering out towards a pond further down the slope, its windowframes views of the barrow on the crest of the next hillside.
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