Architects have gained permission to transform a secret home which was built without planning permission disguised as a cowshed. Ashbourne-based Matthew Montague Architects has been granted planning to re-model and renovate Shedley Manor in the Peak District into a luxury family home.
Work on the six-bedroom house – complete with a sweeping driveway and countryside views on the edge of Yeaveley, near Ashbourne – is expected to start later this year, and will include a new entrance, porch and a double storey bay window at the front.
It will also see the removal of green metal cladding which was added to make it look like a cow shed, in order to get round planning rules. Council planners finally realised the deception in 2016.
