Exterior
Huge glazed openings offer views straight through the threshing barn to the cowshed beyond. The smaller structure to the right, once a cart shed, is now used as a potting shed
Living area
This uplifting scheme combines all-white furniture with eye-catching green and white textiles. Otto corner sofa, Sofa.com. Bespoke coffee table, Samantha Todhunter Design
AT HOME WITH
Owners Susannah Forsythe works with charities and her husband Ivan is a businessman.
House A 17th-century barn with two bedrooms. They bought the barn in 2017 and finished it in 2019.
Situated on the edge of a Dorset village, this former threshing barn is one of three handsome agricultural buildings bought by Susannah and Ivan Forsythe, owners of the neighbouring farmhouse, to create accommodation and entertaining space for their family and friends. When Susannah and Ivan acquired the Grade II-listed structure, one of its façades was hidden behind a makeshift corrugated iron shed that had been erected between the barns to house livestock. 'It wasn't until we took it away that we realized the threshing barn stood on quite a slope, so our first job was to shore it up to prevent it from collapsing, Susannah recalls.
This story is from the May 2022 edition of Country Homes & Interiors.
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