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Highcliff
MortonScarr Architects has designed a black timber-clad house on a steep Dorset slope, with a suspended terrace among the trees.
The suspended terrace runs along the black timber house.
- Practice
- Mortonscarr Architects
- Year
- 2021
- Photographer
- Unique Homestays
The project
Highcliff is a three-bedroom house on a steeply sloping site beside the National Trust woodland of Lambert’s Castle, with views towards the Jurassic Coast. It replaces a group of dilapidated buildings that once featured in a painting by Lucien Pissarro.
Black timber cladding and a dark grey zinc roof set the house against the surrounding green. Inside, polished plaster walls, plywood ceilings and a micro-cement floor keep a natural feel, and the open kitchen, living and dining space leads onto a full-length terrace suspended among the tree canopy.
The living room looks out across the treetops.
Plywood ceilings rise over the open kitchen and dining space.
A bedroom with a dark timber wall and pink plaster.
A bathroom with a round mirror and tiled shower.
A hanging chair on the terrace among the trees.
Credits
- Architect
- Mortonscarr Architects
- Building contractor
- Northcott Building Contractors
- Photographer
- Unique Homestays
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