Barns conversion plan for Pontrilas, Herefordshire

The planning application (numbered 233707) by Joss Lucas-Scudamore of Kentchurch Court Estate seeks permission to convert the buildings at Little Pen-y-Lan Farm above Pontrilas into two three-bedroom and one four-bedroom houses for market sale.

Arranged around a historic courtyard, the barns “are in various states of repair” but have been assessed by an architect as capable of being converted, the estate’s application says.

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The “maximum amount” of the barns’ original fabric would be repaired and retained, and combined with extensive new glazing, while a more modern steel barn occupying the middle of the courtyard would be removed.

Permission was given last May to convert a neighbouring steel-framed Dutch barn into two houses, the application explains, adding: “Given this, it is considered sensible that the whole of the site should be used as residential complex.”

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This forms part of wider moves to bring old and underused buildings on the 5,000-acre estate back into use, it says.

“This will enable the estate to continue to have a viable future, as well as performing an important social function within the local area.”

Comments on the application can be made until January 30.