A Scottish Farmhouse

For a large estate in the Highlands of Scotland, this is a new family house designed by our senior design director, Rupert Cunningham.

The house was designed to be built to a budget, but has a great sense of scale and underlying elegance to its simple, Georgian vernacular form. Double hung sash windows with simple stone surrounds and softly lime harled walls sit beautifully within an entirely natural landscape.  Drawing closely on traditional forms, the main accommodation is contained under a simple hipped-roof building, with a two storey service wing to the side.

This a simple and classic building that demonstrates the power of good design in elevating the ordinary to something beautiful and special.

Now constructed, these images show our design intention through CGI rendering, which we use on many of our projects to perfect design and detailing and to demonstrate to owners exactly how their house will look and feel upon completion.

A Village House in Norfolk

This is a replacement dwelling for a fine site on the edge of an attractive village in North Norfolk, close to the Sandringham Estate.  Designed by our senior director Rupert Cunningham, working closely with our clients who have a strong interest in design and detail, the house draws on local Georgian vernacular examples.

Walls are in lime washed render with a black glazed pantile roof, and with a service wing in brick and flint.

Planning was obtained in 2022, a significant achievement given that the existing house on the site was a much smaller bungalow. We are looking forward to commencing construction and detailed design drawings, working with a local architect to deliver the project.

A Marine Villa

This is a design for a highly contemporary seaside villa on an astonishing site on the South coast, in the New Forest.

Under construction in 2023-4, the building is conceived as a simple, timber-framed, single storey pavilion, which has a very simple plan form designed to take advantage of amazing views over the Solent. The underlying plan and elevations have a powerful classical proportioning system.  Walls are clad in oak shingle and to the rear of the house is a brick-walled garden courtyard to provide warmth and shelter against coastal breezes.

Our initial design for the site is shown below.  Originally, our clients wanted a classical building, and we designed a carefully-considered Marine Villa based on an extremely authentic study of John Nash’s Italianate villas, with particular reference to Cronkhill, on the Attingham Estate, now owned by the National Trust.  After a period of real reflection, the owners decided they wanted to live in a much more contemporary building and we were thrilled that they trusted us with the design of the second proposal for the site.

The former house on the site was a 1930s seaside bungalow and we worked closely with planning officers in the National Park in designing both iterations of the building.