Delfyd Farm
by Rural Office
Awards RSAW Welsh Architecture Award 2025 and RSAW Welsh Architecture Small Project of the Year 2025
The award winner tells us, "Delfyd Farm is a remote coastal farmhouse in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty on the Gower Peninsula, South Wales. The clients, a creative couple, wished to improve the spatial quality of the ground floor of their home to accommodate family and friends.
The project, designed by Rural Office, comprises two modest domestic extensions, one either side of the existing farmhouse – a guest wing to the east and a dining and sitting room to the west, adjacent to the existing kitchen. They read as four distinct volumes, scaled to bring focus to the hierarchy of the original farmhouse."
Extract from the RIBA Awards Jury citation, "The extensions slowly reveal themselves as you pass to the end of the hallway, adding an east–west axis to the house. The whole project is an exercise in restraint in volume and detail. New spaces sit comfortably against the host, remaining subservient while providing volume, relief and interest to the more cellular spaces of the original dwelling. The original intent has been carried through meticulously, yielding a beautiful result. The extensions are highly sustainable, incorporating timber framing and wood fibre insulation. Externally, larch timber cladding and zinc roofs passively protect the retained main house from the elements without altering it."
Read the full citation from the RIBA Awards Jury on RIBA Journal
Contractor Green’s Construction Ltd
Structural engineer kPA Consulting Engineers Ltd
Gross internal area 77m2
