Our pioneering cohousing concept seamlessly marries the timeless ethos of sustainability with the innovative principles of Passivhaus.

Our design, inspired by the historical elegance of the adjacent Stoke House—a Grade II listed building hailing from the 17th century—embodies energy efficiency and environmental stewardship. While our architectural form factor and square footprints pay homage to this storied neighbor, our design introduces contemporary elements that respectfully complement the conservation area's rich heritage.

This thoughtful blend ensures that our cohousing vision not only honors the past but also paves the way for a sustainable, community-focused future.

This Project presents the transformation of a redundant building in Budock Water into a beautiful residential dwelling. Retaining its rural character, this conversion thoughtfully enhances the building with a “swallow’s wing” roof design, incorporating solar PV panels and natural materials.

The sustainable approach includes water harvesting and flood resilience measures, while the existing barn structure is retained with minimal alterations. Designed with sensitivity to the local environment, the project incorporates biodiversity gains and provides a discreet yet striking new home that complements the surrounding landscape.

The development aims to support the fast-growing sector of Uncrewed Air Systems (UAS) 'drones' and their associated technologies. The new facility supports the advancements in testing and prototyping of drones, attracting investment to Cornwall as a National Drone Hub.

Lilyrose has undertaken the planning permission, building regulations, and the project is currently under construction.

"Villa De Piggledy" is an innovative and eclectic home located in Falmouth. This project replaces an existing residential structure with a modern, tiered design that seamlessly blends creativity and sustainability. Incorporating reclaimed materials, including slate and timber, the home is designed to Passivhaus levels of insulation and heat recovery, featuring solar panels, ground and air source heating, and living walls for biodiversity. The design emphasizes natural light, privacy, and connection to the landscape, with a bespoke layout that includes creative spaces, an indoor pool, and stunning views of the surrounding area.

Currently in for planning approval....

Planning permission and Building Control approval for the conversion of a Grade II listed Chapel and its Sunday School Hall into a unique live-work dwelling.

A full 3d scan of the chapel was used to ensure this sensitive transformation retains key historic features, including the original organ and trusses, while introducing a contemporary mezzanine that enhances the space without altering its external scale. The chapel will serve as a workspace for furniture restoration and photography, with the Sunday School repurposed as living quarters. Sustainable upgrades, including a sedum green roof, lime repointing, and increased biodiversity through front garden enhancements, breathe new life into this historic asset.

Renovations currently under construction....

Recently approved for planning, this project will revive a former primitive Methodist Church and open it up for community use. The conversion of the roof space into a home, will ensure the restoration of the community arts space below is economically viable, creating an asset for both the owner and the community.

The building will be retrofitted with high levels of natural insulation and ground source heating and the use of discreet solar slates, ensuring the building does not cost the earth. Materials will be salvaged from the existing building and creatively re-integrated into the revived space, giving the venue a unique sense of character that speaks of it’s past.

Design concepts for a series of ‘custom-build’ barge homes in which future the residents would choose between different sized barges, internal layouts and material finishes from a catalogue of options. This will produce a pontoon scene rich with variety but within a fixed designed framework of to ensure the whole development is unified.

It is intended that a number of affordable homes will be delivered via a group self-build. Through skills and training in ‘barge home building’ the participants will help construct their own homes through 'sweat equity' and create employment going forward as they help build the remainder of the boat-homes. These self-build dwellings will be pivotal in creating genuinely sustainable and secure homes for local people.

An extension and refurbishment to a late 19th Century end of terrace and much loved family home, to provide space for an Artist and a growing household. The refurbishment will use a palette of Cornish slate, lime render, teal ceramic tiles and copper accents to bring a contemporary yet sensitive addition to the conservation area. The project is currently in for Building Control.

The proposal seeks to add a distinctly contemporary addition to the fabric of Falmouth. The original stone-built store will be sensitively brought back to life by removing the pebble dash render to expose the original stone, which will be re-pointed with lime mortar. The new addition is intended to be a distinctly contemporary addition to the street scene, complementing the old stone with the new roman brick detailing.

This project asks how we might re-engage our generation with the processes and production of their food, finding pleasure in the changing seasons and shifting weather patterns and the beauty of soil and sunlight. With the UK governments promise to deliver new ‘Garden Villages’, this proposal looks at how planting an Agroecology research facility and cook school, at the heart of a community owned housing development in Truro, might inspire a new generation of farming communities.

The project explored the use of dowel laminated sturctural timber panels and the revival of thatching in contemporary Architecure. Working with local Cornish Master Thatcher’s South West Thatching, A thatched panel using combed wheat reed was developed to begin testing the viability of a prefabricated dowel laminated wood panel with thatch as both the thermal insulation and building rain-screen. The 1.2m x 2.4m OSB board cassette was thatched in approximately 1 hour. We are currently seeking investment to develop this into a viable system for places with a thatching heritage.

This proposal under Class Q of the general permitted development order will bring this underutilized agricultural building back into use as modern family hub. The existing concrete portal frame will be insulated  to high levels using sheep's wool and clad using timber and fiber cement sheeting to reflect it's agricultural past. 

This self-build second story extension provides 80sqm of additional space while upgrading the thermal performance of the home.

The exterior is  finished with slate, lime render and shou Shugi Ban timber cladding, a Japanese technique where the surface is scorched with a flame to weather proof the timber and deter pests.

The proposed works with the conservation area of Flushing include the remodelling of the existing ground floor walls to create a larger kitchen with more glazing and better connection to the garden. The family bathroom will be re-located on the first floor by extending the current WC. A new dormer extension will provide an en-suite to the loft bedroom.

From the outset our client expressed a keen interest in the trees on his property, having planted some 2000 trees over the past thirteen years. The large Ash (Fraxinus excelsior) found on the site, which has established itself amongst the existing barn has played an essential part in forming our design concept. We saw this pre-existing condition as an opportunity to demonstrate a shift in attitude away from cutting down trees when they get ‘in our way’ especially when we want to build somewhere. Although contributing strongly to the quality of the project, this presented a substantial challenge to designing a viable proposal. we were aware that the existing tree with its shallow root systems and large canopy was already effecting the barns integrity and could affect the integrity of the new dwelling. As a result, the house design has been guided by a principle of ‘touching the ground lightly’ and proposes using innovative screw-pile foundations that raises the house off the ground, freeing the house from the compromised structural integrity of the existing stone wall, while protecting the integrity of the tree roots.

The project is designed to be a catalyst, to propel the Parish of St. Blaise to become a more resilient community. The Gateway building will act as a datum within a wider park to co-ordinate efforts to enable people to be more aware of their ability to grow their our food, produce their own energy and utilize the water and resources of the area.

The building itself would be constructed by local people, setting a precedent for the rest of Cornwall. The unemployed would be trained in innovative sustainable building techniques prior to its construction. 

Our proposal aims to encourage a retired lifestyle that is active and intimately connected to our families and communities. Research conducted by Transforming Aging, suggests that an effective strategy for helping those in later life to remain physically and mentally active is to encourage retirees to continue sharing their experiences and skill to the next generation. Continuing in this participatory way of life can have a positive impact of our wellbeing even helping us to live well for longer.

In terms of building a retirement community, our concept is to integrate the collective units into a cohousing community which shares the site with a much needed community asset. In our case we have suggested a school of gastronomy, but this could equally be a nursery, a sports facility even a theatre school, the possibilities are endless. We hope that this model of homing will positively transform our experience of those later stages of life.