A new home on a prestigious location in Brighton directly facing the sea. Our design seeks to create a contemporary house that avoids the white render, grey window cliché of many recent homes in the locality.
Reddington House
Replacing an existing brick and tile 2-storey house our design broadly straddles the site with a 2-storey volume in a light grey brick and this is ‘cut-out’ and a glazed façade with timber slatted privacy screens are recessed some 1.5 metres, allowing the top to over-arch framing the opening. This deep reveal accommodates a balcony at first floor to provide amenity and solar shading.
A set-back attic storey has a folding roof while the easternmost end has a rooftop terrace to provide shelter from the prevailing south- westerly wind.The site rises some 1.8 metres from the street to the front door, so the driveway slopes up to the house.
In plan, the ground floor provides a generous entrance hall, flanked by a projecting a garage with storage and plant spaces to one side, and three bedrooms to the other. There are two single-storey rear extensions; the short westward wing provides a gym; the longer eastward wing contains a study and leisure spaces (cinema and games room) and these frame a courtyard, sheltered from the wind. A small studio pavilion completes the eastward wing (to house the client’s work as an internationally renowned painting conservator).
The first floor provides a bedroom and study to one side of the tall stair hall, and a largely open plan living space (kitchen, dining, living) set back from the frontage behind the terrace, shading to the ground floor rooms. The attic storey provides a large master bedroom suite and is further set back to the south and east.
| Status | In planning |
| GIA m2 | 505 m2 |
| Landscape architect | ND Studio |
| Quantity surveyor | Cheesman Consulting |
| Project Team | Tom Hayes, John Pardey |
| Photography | © nu.ma |
