We are delighted to announce that planning permission has been granted by the New Forest National Park Authority for a single storey contemporary extension to a locally listed historic cob cottage in the Brockenhurst Conservation Area.

Our new countryside home in West Sussex is progressing beautifully. With the first floor Porotherm walls complete, work is now fully underway on the timber roof structure — a key milestone that’s beginning to define the home’s distinctive form.

This beautifully situated project is beginning to take full form, with the main structure rapidly taking shape thanks to the use of monolithic Porotherm clay blocks — a sustainable and efficient construction method that’s proving its worth.

Our team was extremely proud to have been selected to take part in Barkitecture – the unique kennel design competition at Goodwoof – judged by Kevin McCloud MBE, Bill Bailey and The Duke of Richmond. We were delighted to have then been shortlisted as finalists.

We are delighted to announce that we have made the shortlist of the prestigious Barkitecture kennel design competition at Goodwoof this year! 

This will be judged by the Duke of Richmond and Kevin McCloud MBE at the event on 17th & 18th May 2025.

The second Veterinary Practice in our portfolio is now open and offering specialist orthopaedic care to our four-legged friends. Wessex Veterinary Orthopaedics is a new independent specialist veterinary orthopaedic clinic based in Poole. 

As a semi-rural, award-winning practice, Pell-Stevens Architects are very familiar with the needs of agricultural landowners and their tenants, and the variety of buildings present on their land. As such, we are routinely engaged for our expertise in the design of agricultural buildings and facilities and their necessary planning consents.

Pell-Stevens Architects are delighted to have won an award in the ‘extensions’ category at the prestigious NFNPA Building Design Awards this year.

A recently completed project that infilled a small part of a site between a terraced two storey town house and an existing single story annexe. The aim was to open up the ground floor kitchen, creating a family dining area with a visual connection to the courtyard garden. 

From our studio, located in the northern part of the New Forest National Park, we enjoy daily the beauty of this setting and how it changes through the seasons. We are uniquely placed to understand the constraints and opportunities of designing architecture within this Designated Land environment.

Last weekend I took my humans (Roger and Sara Pell-Stevens) to ‘Goodwoof’ on the Goodwood Estate near Chichester. Having parked our dogmobile we discovered that the show site was a twenty minute walk away, and as my humans are lazy, we took the ‘bark and ride’ service.

Work is progressing well on site, to produce a fabulous new Veterinary Orthopaedic Practice in Poole, Dorset.

We were recently commissioned to design outline proposals for a low-density housing development in the southern counties. The proposed fifty-house scheme is the result of thorough research into local needs, whilst being sympathetically designed for its rural location.

The Pell-Stevens Architects team were recently invited by Wienerberger to visit a building site in Wiltshire. On site they inspected a residential new-build project, constructed from Wienerberger Porotherm multi-cellular clay blocks.

A Pell-Stevens Architects’ team member has donned a dinosaur costume and joined other runners in a charity run along Weymouth beach. 

Clayton Way joined the studio in February 2024 as an Architectural Assistant after spending almost 2 years working in Winchester on high-end residential schemes and one-off homes. Having gained his degree in Architecture and Design in 2022, he is currently studying on the Level 7 Degree Apprenticeship course at the University of Portsmouth.

We are keen to draw attention to online training workshops available this spring from the Bat Conservation Trust. Bats are a protected species and prevalent in the South of England, with 14 of the 18 UK species found in the New Forest alone.

We have designed an impressive 6 bedroom house for a countryside location in West Sussex, that has now gained planning permission. Responding to the challenge of designing a house in the countryside that avoids being a pastiche for traditional architecture or a nostalgia for country living, the design is an elegant, contemporary response to its glorious setting.

A redundant agricultural barn in the West Sussex countryside has gained planning consent for conversion to a residential dwelling. Pell-Stevens Architects have produced a sympathetic design to re-use this existing building whilst also transforming its existing and somewhat unattractive appearance, into a smart new home.

We recently had the opportunity to revisit a new-build project that was completed a decade ago. It was fantastic to see how this spectacular, faceted house has settled into its environment and how the timber facing materials of the walls and roof have mellowed in tone and texture.