An Egyptian-style, postmodern home designed by British architecture studio John Outram Associates in Oxfordshire has been Grade II-listed.
Completed by the studio in 1999, Sphinx Hill house has now become the UK's youngest listed building and forms one of five of John Outram Associates' (JOA) buildings that have been listed.
The Sphinx Hill house is the UK's youngest listed building
The two-storey home was commissioned in 1994 by a couple with a shared interest in ancient Egyptian culture ? from which JOA took many architectural cues.
Described by Historic England as "a tour-de-force of domestic post-modernism", the home's eclectic facade features a symmetrical form, comprised of three colourful volumes topped with barrel-vaulted roofs. The postmodern home takes cues from ancient Egyptian culture
An attic opening on the central volume was designed to resemble a giant eye of Horus, while black column capitals topped with terracotta circles reference the hieroglyph for the rising sun.
On the ground floor, the home is arranged around a cross-vaulted dining room, complete with Egyptian limestone flooring. Mosaics, bold-coloured columns and bronze details feature throughout the home.

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The listing was announced just days before studio founder John Outram celebrated his 90th birthday.
"I am so pleased by news of the listing of Sphinx H...