Nunnery Adaptive Renovation

The original nunnery, vacant for two decades, retained its modest timber frame and a stone-paved forecourt. The intervention preserves these intact: new functions — a tea room, a small reading hall, and a meditation alcove — are inserted as freestanding light-timber boxes that never touch the historic walls.

The roof is re-tiled in the original grey clay, but a single slim skylight is cut above the meditation alcove so that, in the late afternoon, a thin blade of sun slides across the inner wall like a quiet calendar.