Coast House

The UK coastline has some of the most striking settings out there and it’s little wonder that people want to build houses close to it and there are few better examples than Coast House from Hudson Architects. Located in a Norfolk coastal village, Coast House is crafted from mighty attractive and unusual materials including flint walls and corten steel. The architects designed this stunning property to replace a 1920s house within an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

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Coast House from Hudson Architects was conceived as a sculptural presence within its landscape setting, overlooking a broad valley on the edge of a north Norfolk village and it boasts some of the most attractive and well-conceived features we’ve seen in a while here at The Coolector. It is a single storey property just visible above the boundary but not dominating the plot and instead making it an intriguing presence if you catch sight of it.

The beautiful, contemporary home is divided into three separate sections: a central glass-walled pavilion surrounded by a wing clad in flint and a wing wrapped in Corten steel for a modern, industrial aesthetic. The flint was picked to replicate the traditional building material that is used in local walls and a nearby 15th-century church, while the Corten was chosen by the architects to give the house a modern look and feel.

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There is an eco-friendliness to Coast House from Hudson Architects and it has a highly insulated envelope, that makes use of an air source heat pump and is topped with photovoltaic panels to generate electricity and a sedum roof. The Norfolk coast is amongst the UK’s most attractive and there can be few cooler properties to be found there than this spectacular one.

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