Project Name
The Woodspeen Restaurant and Cookery School
Posted in
Restaurants, Design, Interior Design
Opening Hours
Tuesday to Saturday 12.00 - 14.30, 18.00 - 21.30 | Sunday 12.00 - 16.00
Location
Lambourn Road
Woodspeen
RG20 8BN
United Kingdom
Telephone
01635 265070
Email
[email protected]
Architecture Practice
Softroom
Project Team
Milton Architects , Donovan Construction
Area (sqm)
508 (interior)
Completed
2014
Official Website
The Woodspeen
More Info

Closed on Mondays

Detailed Information
Project NameThe Woodspeen Restaurant and Cookery School Posted inRestaurants, Design, Interior DesignOpening HoursTuesday to Saturday 12.00 - 14.30, 18.00 - 21.30 | Sunday 12.00 - 16.00
Location
Lambourn Road
Woodspeen
RG20 8BN
United Kingdom
Telephone01635 265070Email[email protected]
Architecture PracticeSoftroomProject TeamMilton Architects , Donovan ConstructionArea (sqm)508 (interior)
Completed2014Official WebsiteThe WoodspeenMore Info

Closed on Mondays

Commissioned by Michelin-starred chef John Campbell, London-based architecture and interior design studioSoftroom has designed The Woodspeen, a restaurant, bar and cookery school in Newbury, West Berkshire, UK. Occupying a 19th-century thatched-roof building that used to be a pub, the restaurant has a sleek yet homey atmosphere, achieved by retaining elements from the traditional English pub’s vernacular whilst incorporating contemporary materials and forms. Reclaimed wood, old pub tables, wooden chairs, sheepskin throws and natural-fibre fabrics add to the warmth and casual comfort of The Woodpeen’s dining area and bar where the magic word ‘slow’, is used to the full reflecting restaurant’s local and seasonal food philosophy, as produce is often sourced from the restaurant’s own half-acre garden. Guests are also given the opportunity to join the performance and cook with the chef or for their fellow diners — for which a special ‘kitchen table’ seating 10 promises an altogether different dining experience! Another stand-out feature is the roof’s spine which has been trimmed and replaced with glass, creating a space bright enough for a large trough of plants to be placed right in the middle of the restaurant, thus creating a connection between the interior and the surrounding countryside.

photo © Jack Hobhouse.

photo © Jack Hobhouse.

photo © Jack Hobhouse.

photo © Jack Hobhouse.

The loosely geometrical pattern cushions and blankets are by textile designer Eleanor Pritchard. Photo © Jack Hobhouse.

The loosely geometrical pattern cushions and blankets are by textile designer Eleanor Pritchard. Photo © Jack Hobhouse.

photo © Jack Hobhouse.

photo © Jack Hobhouse.

photo © Jack Hobhouse.

photo © Jack Hobhouse.

photo © Jack Hobhouse.

photo © Jack Hobhouse.

photo © Jack Hobhouse.

photo © Jack Hobhouse.

photo © Jack Hobhouse.

photo © Jack Hobhouse.

photo © Jack Hobhouse.

photo © Jack Hobhouse.

A more contemporary and stark aesthetic was deployed in the cookery school area, situated in an adjoining barn building that dates from 1811. Photo © Jack Hobhouse.

A more contemporary and stark aesthetic was deployed in the cookery school area, situated in an adjoining barn building that dates from 1811. Photo © Jack Hobhouse.

photo © Jack Hobhouse.

photo © Jack Hobhouse.

photo © Jack Hobhouse.

photo © Jack Hobhouse.

The Woodspeen Restaurant and Cookery School by Softroom

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