Surbiton Springs House, South West London Property Photos, Wadey Builders New Residential Building
House in Ditton Hill, Surbiton, South West London
24 June 2022
Design: Surman Weston Architects
Location: Surbiton, South West London, England, UK

Photos by Johan Dehlin
RIBA Awards 2022 Winning Buildings and Architects
The Surbiton Springs House is one of the 29 winners of the 2022 RIBA National Awards for architecture.
House in Ditton Hill, Surbiton, London
Jury Report
Ditton Hill House is a new-build, two-storey detached house on a suburban street in Surbiton. The client?s brief was for a contemporary two-bedroomed home with an industrial aesthetic, but not simply a minimalist open plan box. Their priority was to create a home with a sense of openness, with generous, flowing living spaces that were able to be subdivided or left open as desired.
The house successfully blends vernacular mock-Tudor and industrial aesthetics into a unique and appropriate hybrid. With its traditional A-frame elevation the house borrows the language of the suburban mock-Tudor, ubiquitous to its locality, and turns it on its head by expressing it in a steel frame ? the materiality of modernity. Unusually, the structure is designed to be exoskeletal, expressing the pitched form diagrammatically, as if it were drawn by a child.
The frame is combined with slurried brick infill panels, another nod to mock-Tudor building techniques. The garden elevation, Crittall-style glazing, meanwhile, offers a co...