Grade 2 Listed barn extension - Is this Architecture?

This Grade II listed barn is featured in today's Guardian Newspaper as an example of a barn currently on the market and ideal for down-sizing. It strikes PAPA that from our detailed assessments a significant amount of the planning applications being refused across the country, are additions and alterations to listed buildings or in Conservation Areas. It is important that additions to Heritage assets are carefully designed, and the guidelines set out by Historic England generally encourage new additions to be contrasting and modern which illustrates the historic development of the property, but surely there has to be a better solution than the black box additions to this barn?

There are excellent examples of black barns across the country, and the detailing and forms remain simple, but on this featured image these additions to the original brick barn show no creativity and to the un-trained eye are what they are, ugly additions! There has to be a simple but more elegant solution to the design challenge on this project, either the Architect or more probably the Local Authority Conservation Officer should think more laterally here.

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