Housebuyers who have ever fancied living within walking distance of an all-weather artificial polo pitch could be in luck.

Developers A&J Gantlett have been given permission by planners at Swindon Borough Council to convert barns on a farm in Inglesham into three luxury houses.

Lynt Farm already has two grade II listed farmhouses at the site and an artificial polo pitch which will stay in situ.

But some farm buildings will be knocked down to allow new barn-type houses to be built, while other historic barns will be converted into family homes.

There are three phases to the plans put together for Gantletts by planning agents JPCC Chartered town planners, located in Oxford.

A barn running along Lynt Farm Lane, and wrapping around the corner with the entrance to the farm site, will be converted into a four-bedroom house with a large garden in a courtyard formed by the interior corner of the building.

The report to planners says the open-sided barn forming one arm of the house will be infilled with glass to retain the openness of the existing form. A dilapidated former farm building will be rebuilt.

One objection was received from residents in Lynt Farm Lane concerned that increasing the height of the barn at the entrance to the site and adding windows would impinge on their privacy, and that that would not be in keeping with the original style of the building.

The report says: “In response, the minimal apertures on the east elevation and the blank north roadside elevation will limit overlooking into existing neighbours properties.”

Further into the farmyard, four barns in a line facing each other will also be converted to from one home: “The converted main threshing barn with two reinstated side wings with ancillary accommodation formed from Stable Cottage and the repaired and converted stable wing.”

The buildings would have a largely enclosed courtyard in the middle. The main barn would be an open plan four-bedroom house, with kitchen dining and utility room in the rebuilt wing. Across the courtyard, the Stable Cottage would provide guest bedrooms and and gym.

The biggest job will come in creating the third house.

Here a large ‘metal shed’ stable bar is sited and this would be knocked down with an L-shaped ‘barn-style’ building created as a home on its site. That will allow the rest of the barn site to be used as a driveway and courtyard garden.

The plans say: “Minimal openings have been located on the exterior courtyard walls with large glazed to the internal walls, providing ample daylight internally.”

Behind this house is the artificial polo pitch on the farm site.

To allow access to the new houses, part of the arena building next to the polo ground would be removed, as would two old barns “not worthy of conversion”.

Restored and new buildings will be built in local stone and red brick to match the existing buildings on the site, with roofs constructed in blue slate, like the already-listed farm houses.

Permission has been granted for the plans on the condition that work starts within three years of it being granted.