A vivid blue Rice horse trailer converted into a mobile coffee business, hatches open under a blue sky
THE RICE BARNBESPOKE CONVERSIONS
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Sussex · Surrey · Built to travel

Your business.Built to move.

One-of-one mobile spaces, crafted from horse trailers, vans and containers for people with an idea worth noticing.

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What we doEST. 2019 · SUSSEX

We take something with a past—

and build ita future.

The Rice Barn began with a plan to serve coffee from converted Rice horse trailers. Then people saw the workmanship — and asked us to build their ideas instead.

Every project still carries that first-hand understanding of what a mobile business needs: beauty that brings people closer, and detail that keeps it working through the busiest service.

How we work
0Founded in Sussex
0%Bespoke, every time
0Shells: trailers, vans, containers
0Builds bought off the shelf

Selected work

Built to beremembered.

Every build starts with a blank page. Shape, colour, flow and finish all answer to one thing: your business.

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What we buildANYTHING MOBILE
01

Catering & coffee

A complete working service space, planned around your menu, equipment and event workflow.

02

Bars & tap rooms

From compact cocktail bars to multi-hatch festival units, built to pour and perform.

03

Retail & pop-ups

Distinctive mobile brand spaces that turn footfall into attention, conversation and sales.

04

Wellness & beyond

Saunas, salons, workshops and beautifully unusual ideas — we build beyond the expected.

The build studio · try it

Sketch yourbusiness in 20 seconds.

Pick a shell, choose what it does, paint it and put your name in lights. When it feels right, send the sketch — it lands in the workshop with your brief already filled in.

Your sketchUntitled build
01 Start with a shell

Our signature — classic Rice curves

02 What will it do?
03 Serving hatches
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04 Paint it

Rice blue

05 Put your name in lights
Send this sketch to the workshop

A sketch, not a quote — every build is designed and priced one-to-one.

The Rice Barn conversion lit for an evening event

Born from experience

We planned to sell coffee.We found our craft.

2019

One converted Rice trailer sparked a different kind of business: helping founders turn unusual shells into remarkable places.

From pizza trailers to mobile saunas, the starting point can be almost anything. The result will always be yours.

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The journey

From rough sketchto road ready.

Four stages, one team, no hand-offs. You'll always know where your build is.

01

Listen

Your idea, budget, equipment and the way you need to work. Rough sketches on napkins welcome.

02

Design

A practical one-off layout, visual direction and a clear build plan you can hold us to.

03

Build

Fabrication, electrics, finishes and obsessive workshop detail — with updates as it takes shape.

04

Launch

A road-ready business built to earn attention from the very first service.

Also from the workshop floor

The parts we trust,
ready to ship.

Watertight snail hinges cut to length, breakaway cables and the hardware we fit to our own builds — from £39.95.

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Aluminium catering snail hingeBest for hatches
Trailer breakaway cable£8.00

Have an idea?

Let's build the thingpeople stop for.

Start your project 01293 988023 · Sussex, UK