Plans for pool pavilion, gym and office at Home Farmhouse

The application has been submitted to Cherwell District Council for the six bedroom Home Farmhouse in Manor Road, Adderbury, near Banbury.

The proposal seeks permission to demolish an existing timber pool plant shed and a modern glass greenhouse, reconfiguring the walled swimming‑pool enclosure and steps.

In their place, the owners want to build a single‑storey stone outbuilding with attic‑level accommodation to house a pool plant room, shower and changing facilities, plus space for a home office and gym.

Designers say the building has been conceived as a modest pavilion using random‑coursed ironstone with ashlar quoins, a natural grey slate roof and painted hardwood joinery to reflect the local vernacular and earlier extensions to the house.

The pool area sits about 40 metres behind the farmhouse and roughly three metres below Manor Road, screened by stone walls and mature planting, so the structure would not be visible from public viewpoints, according to the heritage statement.

The report argues the scheme will be a “significant improvement” on a previously approved Norwegian log‑chalet style pool house dating from the late 1990s, which it describes as inferior in design and materials.

It concludes the plans would preserve the historic fabric of the farmhouse, cause no harm to the conservation area and have no ecological or tree impacts.