Cornish Coastal Retreat near Port Issac, Cornwall Property, Cornish Building, Architecture Images
Cornish Coastal Retreat near Port Issac, Cornwall
28 July 2020
Cornish Coastal Retreat
Design: Woodford Architecture and Interiors
Location: Port Issac, Cornwall, England
The design of a coastal retreat in Cornwall resonates design of the highest quality.

Moulded into a South facing grassed slope in an area of outstanding natural beauty near Port Issac, this remarkable project incorporates a new house, associated lookout building and a new landscape design to replace a former dilapidated farmhouse, outbuildings and reinvigorate the site and surrounding landscape. This home now fully embraces its countryside setting of wildflower meadows and Cornish hedges. The design of the house has been a sympathetic and creative response to a sensitive site. The house comprises 2 wings linked by a glazed central entranceway and stairwell. Entry to the house is down a flight of granite steps, set between 2 Cornish hedges that appear to open up like a fissure.

Locally sourced walling stone from a neighbouring quarry has been combined with Shou Sugi Ban timber cladding to differentiate each wing, and this smartly recedes the house from the surrounding distant public viewpoints.

Huge glass sliding doors – including an 18-meter sliding door that opens out on to the swimming pool decking and hot tub – let daylight spill into the house and frame views out to the coast and countryside...