The North Star House

Status: Built

Client: Private

Location: Deal, Kent, UK.

Contractor: Collett Custom Homes

Photographs: Richard Chivers

Drone Imagery: Carsten Birkebæk 

The house is situated in front of the Deal’s pebble beach, where the English Channel and The North Sea meet. The clients approached us to design a contemporary house that embodied their interests and design ideals.

The proposed building takes elements from the architectural language and materials along Deal’s sea promenade. Our design comprises a three-storey home with a pitched roof to the south and a flat roof to the north, adjacent to the neighbouring Angling Club. We have proposed a varied material palette, including gabion walls filled with large pebbles as an obvious reference to the beach at ground floor level, projecting bay windows with grey timber cladding at first floor level, render throughout and zinc roof covering to the main pitched roof as well as the window boxes.

The layout has an open plan nature; large bedrooms on the ground floor, an entrance hall and utility room, workshop and studio plus storage and stairs to the first floor. At first floor level is the master bedroom with ensuite, separate WC, living room, dining space and kitchen with a cantilevered stair leading to the solar room and roof terrace.