A skinny home in an alley, a low-rise brick Passivhaus and a converted stone barn are among the varied projects on this year's longlist for the RIBA House of the Year Award.
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has longlisted a total of 20 homes for the prize, which is awarded annually to the best one-off house designed by an architect in the UK.
Bumpers Oast (above) and Redhill Barn (top image) are among the rural homes longlisted for the RIBA House of the Year Award
Other projects on this year's longlist are Corner House by 31/44 Architects and Grain House by Hayhurst & Co Architects ? two Victorian dwellings that have been remodelled in London.
Among the most unusual one-off homes vying for the prize are Bumpers Oast, which is designed by ACME to evoke a hop-drying kiln in rural Kent, and The Narula House in Berkshire that is perched on skinny stilts over a flood plain. A remodelled Victorian dwelling called Corner House also made the list
The Narula House, which was designed by John Pardey Architects, is among the longlisted projects to have also won a RIBA National Award this year.
Other houses that made it onto both lists are the rural Redhill Barn by TYPE and Alison Brooks Architects' art-filled extension to a Georgian farmhouse, alongside Tonkin Liu's residential conversion of an old water tower and Alma-nac's House-within-a-House.
The Water Tower house in Norfolk is also vying for the prize
The RIBA House of the Year Award, originally called the Ma...