NEW LEASE of life

POLLY AND GEORGE PHILLIPS RENOVATED THIS FORMER STONE HAY BARN TO CREATE A LUXURIOUS HOME WITH A MODERNMEETS-RURAL LOOK

- JULIET BENNING, LISA FAZZANI

Dining area

The open-plan kitchen-diner is expansive, but the large central island creates a natural divide between the two areas, and makes for easier socialising when there are guests. An extra-large dining table provides the focus for festive entertaining.

BUY THE KEY PIECES

Try the Tribeca dining table, £129, Dunelm. Contemporary bath stone pendant lights, £395 each, Anton & K

HALLWAY

To retain the aura of a working farm building, much of the barn’s stone and beam work has been exposed, alongside old barn doors.

HOME NOTES

WHO LIVES HERE? Polly Phillips is the marketing/ guest experience director at Bibury Farm Barns. Her husband, George, is a grain trader. They have two children, Lilah, three, and Rory, two.

THE PROPERTY A four-bedroom converted 19th-century stone barn at George’s family farm in Bibury in the Cotswolds.

Set on the edge of a working arable and livestock farm in rolling fields in the heart of the Cotswolds, the Old Hay Barn is one of five barns that owners Polly and George Phillips set about converting back in 2017.