The Woodland House / McLean Quinlan Architects
Hidden within a clearing in a Grade II listed arboretum in Hampshire, this highly efficient new-build family home was designed to fully embrace its wooded location.
Hidden within a clearing in a Grade II listed arboretum in Hampshire, this highly efficient new-build family home was designed to fully embrace its wooded location.
Nestled into a hillside, this timber-framed family home enjoys uninterrupted views out across the countryside of the North Downs. A newly built property, it is an elegant fusion of traditional crafts and materials with contemporary design.
Planning for this project was won under Paragraph 79, the Country House Clause, with a design taking inspiration from the surroundings.
Project: Polzeath Beach House Architects: McLean Quinlan Architects Interior Design: McLean Quinlan, Jam Interiors Structural Engineer: Frank Van Loock Associates Location: Polzeath, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom Year 2019 Photography: Jim Stephenson Looking out over the North Cornish coast nests a bespoke family beach house with commanding views over the panoramic surfing beach at Polzeath. The
Situated in the far corner of a mews, our brief for this project was to create a contemporary family home. To respect the existing architecture of the mews, we designed a home that has a more traditional feel on the outside, with bricks and sash windows, but which has a distinctively modern feel inside.