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South Downs House
MortonScarr Architects has replaced a workers’ cottage on an exposed South Downs site with a flint-clad five-bedroom house.
Flint walls and a standing seam roof under a clear sky.
- Practice
- Mortonscarr Architects
- Year
- 2021
- Photographer
- James French
The project
South Downs House stands on an exposed site on top of the South Downs. It replaces a workers’ cottage and follows a similar footprint and simple pitched-roof form, so its impact on the National Park is no greater than its predecessor’s.
The house is clad in flint, a traditional local material detailed in a contemporary way, with larch cladding and a standing seam metal roof. Cut-outs in the roof form a terrace for the main bedroom, glazed gable ends frame the countryside, and a plywood stair and wall run through the double-height hall.
The house sits low in the open downland.
The living room frames views over the countryside.
Light falls across the plywood wall upstairs.
A dark kitchen with a long island and wide glazing.
Evening light through the gable window.
Credits
- Architect
- Mortonscarr Architects
- Building contractor
- Chalmers and Co
- Photographer
- James French
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