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English Residential Architecture – latest home additions to this page, arranged chronologically:

15 May 2013
Glass House, Hampshire, southern England
Design: AR Design Studio

photo : Martin Gardner
Glass House England
It is not every day that a body is found buried on your building site, but on a summer’s morning in 2012 this is exactly what happened while builders were laying foundations for RIBA award-winning architects AR Design Studio’s latest project.

9 May 2013
Shadow House, Wiltshire, southern England
Design: Jonathan Tuckey Design

photo : James Brittain
Shadow House
The clients were intent on preserving the historic character of this elegant historic chapel but needed to adapt the building to accommodate the needs of their young family and connect it to the garden at the rear of the site.

20 Jan 2013
Thompson House, Isle of Wight, southern England
The Manser Practice

photo : Jonathan Manser
Contemporary House on the Isle of Wight
The Client’s brief was for their weekend and holiday house, a compact 1960’s bungalow, to be enlarged, giving more living accommodation and enhancing the views of the sea to the north and west. Maintaining the private/secret nature of the site was also a requirement.

17 Jan 2013
The Welch House, Isle of Wight, southern England
The Manser Practice

photo : Jonathan Manser
Isle of Wight House
The client, for whom the architects had previously designed a house in Nevada, wanted a modern four-bedroom family house with large open plan living area, using the dramatic seaside site.

16 Jan 2013
Boxwood, near Rye, East Sussex, south east England
Walker Bushe Architects

photo : Janie Airey
House in Rye
Boxwood is situated within ancient woodland approximately 5 miles inland from the Cinque Port town of Rye in East Sussex. The site is an acre of woodland clearing surrounded by mature trees and shrubs with no obvious artificial boundaries. Wild Boar, Muntjac deer, bats and a plethora of birdlife are to be found within the surrounding woods.

English Homes in 2012

English Homes in 2012

28 Nov 2012
Orchard House, Wiltshire, south west England
Studio Octopi

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Orchard House Wiltshire
Orchard House was commissioned as a place in which to live, work and pursue various hobbies. The Client specifically wanted to create a lasting piece of responsive architecture that was not defined by her use of a wheelchair and where the building interacted effortlessly with the landscape.

16 Nov 2012
Country House in Hampshire
ADAM Architecture

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Country House in Hampshire
Nigel Anderson at ADAM Architecture has won an appeal for an unusual new ‘NPPF Para 55’ country house in Hampshire. ADAM Architecture is one of the first practices to win planning permission, after appeal, under the new National Planning Policy Framework, paragraph 55 – the replacement to the Planning Policy Statement 7 (PPS7) which allows the building of new country houses that are of ‘exceptional quality or innovative design’.

2 Oct 2012
Abbots Way, Abbots Way Fountains Park, Netley Abbey, Southampton, Hampshire, south east England
Architect: Andy Ramus – AR Design Studio

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Abbots Way House
This latest creation by AR Design Studio, is a stunning five bedroom house. Bordered by mature trees and a small lake, this spectacular house creates feelings of ultimate relaxation and privacy, whilst its contemporary design juxtaposes superbly with its beautifully rural location, on the south coast of England.

23 Aug 2012
Hurst House, Bourne End, Buckinghamshire
Design: John Pardey Architects in collaboration with Ström Architects

photo : Andy Matthews
Buckinghamshire Property
The Hurst House is a new build one-off contemporary house located on the edge of the village of Bourne End. The clients’ brief was to build a very sustainable and contemporary family home that would have the flexibility to successfully cope with changing family conditions as their children grow up and leave the nest.

19 Jul 2012
Country House, Easton, Suffolk, south east England
Design: Jerry Tate Architects

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Country House in Suffolk
Jerry Tate Architects has received planning for a 500m2 country house on a greenfield site in Easton, Suffolk. The contemporary design integrates the building and landscape in both form and function.

29 Jun 2012
Easton Neston Estate, Northamptonshire, East Midlands, central England
Ptolemy Dean Architects

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Easton Neston Estate
Easton Neston is one of the finest country houses in England, designed by Hawksmoor with an adjacent wing by Wren. Unsympathetic additions and a fire in 2002 meant there was much for the new owners and their architects to address.

26 Jun 2012
North House, Bowden, Lancashire
Design: Roger Stephenson Architects

photo : Daniel Hopkinson
House in Lancashire
North House is a substantial detached family home in a street of impressive Victorian villas and is an example of how an uncompromisingly contemporary house can sit comfortably and calmly in a conservation area and its existence is due to a sympathetic planning officer who recognized on appeal the sensitivity of the composition.

28 May 2012
Dovecote Barn, Great Amwell, Hertfordshire
Nicolas Tye Architects

photograph : Nerida Howard
Hertfordshire House Extension
Dovecote Barn is a contemporary rear extension project to a recently converted barn in Great Amwell, Hertfordshire. Our clients proposed to build a rear extension to the barn in order to create more practical living space for the family, by creating some depth to the long and narrow footprint of the existing barn.

3 May 2012
Beechwood – Contemporary Oxfordshire House
Spratley Studios

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Oxfordshire House
South Oxfordshire District Council Planning Committee voted unanimously in favour of granting an exceptional planning permission to an innovative and highly sustainable landmark dwelling designed by Spratley Studios for a sensitive rural location on the edge of an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).

2 Apr 2012
North Point House, St John Jersey
MJP Architects

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North Point House Jersey
This MJP designed one-off house, on a rocky promontory in Jersey, has recently obtained a Planning Permit. The site has now been cleared ready for construction. The house is entered on a cross axis and creates a double height hallway in the centre.

English Homes – Recent Property Designs

English Homes in 2011

13 Dec 2011
Residence near Aldeburgh, Suffolk
Strom Architects

render : Peter Guthrie
House in Suffolk
The clients’ brief is for a country house – ‘a dream in a wood’, a peaceful place to relax, regenerate, and think of new ideas. The existing site with the pool, its ruins and low walls has a very strong presence, and we wanted to keep this as an important part of the site.

18 Nov 2011
Capel Manor House Guest Pavilion, Horsmonden, Tonbridge, Kent
Ewan Cameron Architects

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Capel Manor House Guest Pavilion
The brief was to design a guest pavilion comprising 2 bedroom suites that would sit adjacent to an Italianate orangery from 1860, on the grounds of Capel Manor House, an iconic modernist pavilion designed by Michael Manser in the late 1960s.

26 Jul 2011
Oxfordshire Country House, central England

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English Country House
“Progressive classical house” design by ADAM Architecture to replace “modernist scheme” in central England

19 May 2011
Watson House, New Forest National Park, Hampshire
John Pardey Architects

photo © James Morris
New Forest House

Balancing Barn, Suffolk
MVDRV

photo : Edmund Sumner
Balancing Barn

Meat Factory (private house), Nottingham
Marsh & Grochowski

image : Hannah Marsh
Meat Factory

Bavent House, Reydon
Hudson Architects

photo © James Brittain
Bavent House, Reydon

Epsom House, Surrey
Eldridge Smerin

photo © Lyndon Douglas
Epsom House

Hampstead Lane, London
Duggan Morris Architects

photograph © James Brittain
Hampstead Lane

Hoxton House, London
David Mikhail

photograph © Tim Crocker
Hoxton House

New Mission Hall, West Sussex
Adam Richards Architects

photo © Adam Richards
New Mission Hall

The Shingle House, Kent, England
NORD

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The Shingle House

Strange House, London
Hugh Strange Architect

photograph © David Grandorge
Strange House

Shadow House, London
Liddicoat and Goldhill

photograph © Keith Collie
Shadow House

Unless stated please assume the following to be private houses and respect the privacy of the owners & inhabitants

Underhill House, Cotswolds, west England
2010
Seymour-Smith Architects

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Underhill House

Contemporary English Houses

All Saints House, Petersham, Richmond, Surrey, southern England
2006
Stephen Ibbotson Architects

Baggy House – private, north Devon
1995
Hudson Architects
RFAC Building of the Year 1995

Black House, Kingdon Avenue, Prickwillow, Cambridgeshire
2003
Mole Architects

photo : John Donat
Black House

Cavendish Avenue house, south Cambridge, southeast England
2009
Mole Architects

photograph : David Butler
Cavendish Avenue house

Cedar house, North Elham, Norfolk
2005
Hudson Architects

Creek Vean House and Retreat, Feock, Cornwall, southwest England
1966
Team 4 (Rogers / Fosters)

Daniels House, Surrey
1993
Panter Hudspith Architects

Dungeness Beach House, Kent
Simon Conder Associates

photo © Stephen Ambrose 07866 602627
Black Rubber Beach House

Eagle Rock House, Uckfield, East Sussex
Ian Ritchie Architects

photo © Jocelyne Van den Bossche
Contemporary English house

Eco-House, Whichelo Place, Hanover, Brighton, East Sussex
drp architects

picture © Richard Rowland
Sussex eco-house

El Ray, Kent, southeast England
Simon Conder Associates

photo © Paul Smoothy
El Ray : Stephen Lawrence Prize winner 2009

Esher House, Surrey
2006
Wilkinson King Architects

Hampshire Mill Conversion
Dan Brill Architects

photo : Andrew Putler
Hampshire Mill Building

Hampshire Poolhouse, Hampshire
Dan Brill Architects

photo : Matt Loughran
Hampshire Poolhouse

Holme Wood house, Marlow, Buckinghamshire, southeast England
2002-05
Hamiltons Architects
1,500 sqm: on site

House, Oxfordshire
David Chipperfield Architects

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Oxfordshire House

The Lodge, Whithurst Park, Kirdford, West Sussex
2003
James Gorst Architects Ltd

The Love Shack, Windermere, Cumbria
Sutherland Hussey Architects

image : Karen Guthrie
Lake District house

Lower Mill Estate: Architecture Competition, Oxfordshire
Building by Sutherland Hussey Architects

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Lower Mill Estate houses

New house – private, Devon
–
Simon Conder Associates
Devon house architect – Simon Conder

Peasmarsh House, East Sussex
Hut Architecture

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Sussex house

Pinions Barn, Higham Cross, Buckinghamshire
2005
Simon Conder Associates
Wood Awards 2005 + RIBA Awards 2006 – South

Poplar Cottage, Walberswick, Suffolk, southeast England
Dow Jones Architects

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Suffolk Home

The Salt House
Alison Brooks Architects

photo : Cristobal Palma
Salt House

The Schaefer House, Cheshire
MBLA Architects + Urbanists

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Schaefer House

Historic English Houses

Castle Drogo, Drewsteignton, nr Exeter, Devon, southwest England
1910-30
Edwin Lutyens
National Trust property
Edwin Lutyens

Goddards, Abinger Common, Surrey
1898-1900
Edwin Lutyens
extended by Lutyens in 1910; Garden designed by Gertrude Jekyll

The Grange (house), Ramsgate, Kent, southeast England
–
AWN Pugin

Knebworth House, Knebworth, Hertfordshire, southeast England
elements by Edwin Lutyens
2006 restortion by Donald Insall Associates Ltd

Munstead Wood, 2km southeast of Godalming, near London
1896
Edwin Lutyens
An important building as built by Lutyens for long-term collaborator Gertrude Jekyll

Seaton Delaval Hall, Northumberland
John Vanbrugh

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Seaton Delaval Hall

Stowe House – restoration, Buckinghamshire
Purcell Miller Tritton

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Stowe House

Modern English Houses

The Circles, Long Ditton, Surrey
1930s
Wells Coates
2006 – refurbishment John Winter Architect
Surrey house – Wells Coates

High Cross House, Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon
1930s
W. E. Lescaze
1994- renovation by John Winter and Associates
Modern house – simple white forms

High & Over, Amersham, Buckinghamshire
–
Amyas Connell
Modernist house

High & Over – restoration, Amersham, Buckinghamshire
1994
John Winter

Homewood House, Portsmouth Rd, Esher, Surrey
1938-39
Patrick Gwynne Architect
Open to public: this Modern Surrey house owned by National Trust

House at Little Frieth, nr high Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
1934
Colin Lucas

Wood House, Shipbourne, Kent
–
Walter Gropius

More English Homes welcome

Zero-carbon home, BRE site, Watford, southeast England
Sheppard Robson with Arup

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English sustainable house