The Fold House
A quiet addition to a working landscape.
- Location
- Coldwell Fen
- Area
- 186 m²
- Completed
- 2025
Independent architecture / Est. 2014
Ansford, UK
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Space,
considered.
We make buildings that belong.
To their place. To their people.
To the years ahead.
Architecture
Interiors / Reuse
Fig. 001 — The Fold HouseAxonometric / Not to scale
01 / Our position
Less noise.
More meaning.
Architecture starts with paying attention. A familiar path. The afternoon light. The wall worth keeping.
We are a studio of eight architects and makers. We work from the first sketch to the last door handle, balancing ambitious ideas with the everyday business of living.
02 / Selected work
Built. Rebuilt.
Still becoming.
2023—2026
Six ways of thinking
02 / Adaptive reuse
The Civic Rooms
A former sorting office becomes a neighbourhood workshop, reading room and place to meet.
- Location
- Ansford
- Area
- 640 m²
- Completed
- 2024
03 / Project register
The full picture.
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A timber-framed home with a folded zinc roof and a sheltered courtyard. Its footprint follows the foundations of the farm store it replaces.
- Scope
- New build / Interiors
- Structure
- Local larch / Lime render
- Energy
- Air-source / Rooftop solar
Seventy-eight percent of the original structure retained. A new timber insert creates warm, useful rooms inside a generous industrial shell.
- Scope
- Conversion / Public realm
- Client
- Ansford Civic Trust
- Area
- 640 m²
A narrow urban plot, opened to the sky. Three brick volumes gather around a planted courtyard that brings daylight to every room.
- Status
- On site / Autumn 2026
- Area
- 212 m²
Two workshops and a shared yard for independent makers. Durable surfaces, north-facing rooflights and room to grow.
- Area
- 820 m²
- Materials
- Reclaimed brick / Spruce
A single, forty-metre room divided by furniture rather than walls. A library, a kitchen and a table large enough for everyone.
- Scope
- Interior architecture
- Area
- 148 m²
A small shelter on a floodplain, designed to welcome walkers and let the water pass. A light-touch structure on reversible foundations.
- Status
- Planning approved
- Area
- 46 m²
04 / Working together
A good building
begins with a
good conversation.
One team, all the way through. Clear drawings, honest budgets and decisions made together.
Tell us what you have in mind- 01 / Listen
Find the right question.
We visit, look, measure and listen. Then agree a brief, a budget and the things that matter most.
- 02 / Test
Make room for possibilities.
Models, sketches and material samples bring options into focus. Nothing is precious until it proves useful.
- 03 / Resolve
Think through every junction.
Planning, technical drawings and careful coordination. The practical work that makes the idea buildable.
- 04 / Build
Stay close to the making.
Regular site visits and direct conversations with craftspeople, right through to the final snag.
05 / The practice
Eight people.
One shared desk.
Founded by Ilse Maddox and Tobias Lind, Kernes is a collaborative practice where everyone draws, questions and gets their boots muddy.
No polished brief needed. Tell us about your site, your building or the idea you keep coming back to.
48 Foundry LaneAnsford, AF2 4LX
United Kingdom
Studio visits by appointment
Monday–Friday / 09:00–18:00