Topsham — Grade II Listed Farm Café Restoration

A Grade II listed farm building on the edge of Topsham, carefully restored and given a new working life as a café — historic brickwork and stepped gables repaired, with a calm, vaulted dining hall built inside the old shell.

Full restoration of a Grade II listed farm building and its conversion to a working café: masonry and roof repairs, new glazed openings formed within the existing brickwork, a vaulted dining hall, a commercial servery and kitchen, and a courtyard terrace.

To give a redundant listed farm building a sustainable new use — keeping the brickwork, gables and roofscape readable and intact while creating a bright, welcoming café that serves the town.

Listed consent required every new opening and every service run to leave the historic fabric undamaged and clearly readable. A working commercial servery and kitchen had to be fitted within a structure that was never built to hold them.

All new work is quiet and reversible: frameless glazed openings set within the existing brickwork, a vaulted limewashed dining hall, and a freestanding stainless-steel servery that touches nothing historic. New wiring, plumbing and ventilation run through new floor and ceiling zones, leaving the old walls exactly as found — repaired, but honest.

• 01Grade II listed consent managed in-house
• 02Historic brickwork and stepped gables repaired
• 03Vaulted, limewashed café dining hall
• 04Frameless glazed openings in existing brickwork
• 05Freestanding stainless-steel servery
• 06Commercial kitchen fit-out
• 07Courtyard terrace seating
• 08Services routed with no damage to historic fabric
• 09Roof repaired with retained historic tiles
• 10New glazed gable screen