Welcome to a constructing with tales to inform. Within the sixteenth century, the stately construction served as one in all Somerset’s essential hubs, a wool corridor for buying and selling fleece. 4 hundred years later the landmark was getting used as one of many UK’s premier recording studios—dwelling quarters within the outdated corridor, music studios added out again.
Tears for Fears owned the complicated after which Van Morrison. The Treatment, The Smiths, Annie Lennox, and Joni Mitchell all recorded right here. The present proprietor, a musician and report producer who desires to stay nameless, employed Tuckey Design Studio to carry out an intensive overhaul.
Specialists in historic resuscitations with a modern-minimalist purity, the Tuckey crew led by architect Mariza Daouti had been tasked with rethinking the setup as a full-time household residence and recording studio. It was a tall order. Regardless of the property’s vibrant previous, right here’s what they confronted: “a chilly and leaky stone constructing fragmented by poorly constructed Eighties extensions…Wool Corridor had advanced into an amalgamation of many supplies, eras and kinds, the coherence of the unique format misplaced beneath layers of unsympathetic additions.”
“The challenge was threefold, a restoration, a retrofit and an adaptive reuse,” the architects informed Dezeen. “We had loads of artistic freedom resulting from its state of degradation and [the addition’s] lack of architectural benefit; the problem was to make these venerable opposites distinct in their very own proper however complementary as a part of the identical residence.” Many months of labor later, the place is an eccentric however elegantly built-in combine spanning centuries, slightly bit Elizabethan, slightly bit rock ‘n roll. Let’s have a look.
Images by James Brittain, except famous, all courtesy of Tuckey Design Studio.
