Architects: Nash Baker Architects www.nashbaker.co.uk
Location: Orford, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12, UK
Area: 201.5 sqm
Project Year: 2016
Photographs: Nick Guttridge
Design Team: Katharine Maclean, Simon Baker, Howard Nash
Structural Engineer: Ellis & Moore
The client’s brief was to replace the incongruous pre-existing Internally, the house has a muted decorative scheme with
1980’s building with an exceptional contemporary home that exposed concrete ceilings complemented by a floor of
was both sympathetic to the neighbouring properties, whilst whitewashed Douglas fir planks and fitted joinery made with
still being of its time. They required an open plan living lacquered birch faced plywood. Studio and office rooms
arrangement that on the ground floor would provide them occupy the left side of the ground floor layout, mirrored on the
with dedicated work rooms for their respective professional right of the rear reception room by an open plan kitchen area
activities as silversmith and baker, and a first floor, that could defined by a parallel wooden dining surface in walnut with
take advantage of the natural daylight and the expansive views expressed dovetail joints.
across the marshes to Orford Ness, and the coast beyond.
The reception room opens out onto a red brick terrace and
In contrast to the brickwork at the ground floor, the upper garden through a series of glazed sliding doors, mirrored on
level appears lightweight, utilising ribbons of untreated oak the upper storey where corresponding doors on the master
cladding to wrap up and across a pitched roof. The oak bedroom and en-suite bathroom open out onto a covered
cladding was sized to match the brick course dimensions, so terrace sheltered by the oak clad roof that gives spectacular
that the two elements of construction have a complimentary views of the Orford Ness marshes and the Suffolk coast.
design intent.