Sandpipers

The house is wrapped in bespoke vertical larch cladding, stained with a matt Osmo oil finish. The boards have been cut and jointed on site with the greatest of care. Such was the contractor’s attention to detail that a bespoke timber jig was made to ensure the vertical and horizontal alignment of the nail heads. Each nail was then hammered into place using the wide end of a nail punch to prevent any damage to the face of the timber boards.

Sitting beneath the tree canopy, the sober graphite grey façade (RAL 7022) shifts in tone as the light plays over the building’s intersecting cubic forms. The vertical cladding runs in perfect alignment into the soffits formed by the overhanging first-floor volume.

The building is capped with a Sarnafil metal capping to the parapet. Internally, the judicious use of high-quality, natural finishes affords a quiet luxury to the main rooms.

English oak panelling lines the library and dining room, and is used to form the staircase and balustrade, which floats above a polished concrete floor by Lazenby. The large Schüco windows slide in recessed frames forming flush thresholds with Marshalls Saxon paving slabs to the external terraces.