The site for this house is located in the centre of an Edwardian block near Palmerston Park. A left over plot, slotted in behind the extensive gardens of the area, defined by their red brick walls and quite removed from the surrounding protected structures. The site is extreme at 53meters long and 8.3meters wide with access by car from a lane at one narrow end and by foot from the client's family home at the other.

The concept of the house was dictated by the site and brief requirements and the inevitable choice of brick as the main building material; giving a materiality capable of determining the image of the house. A massive solid, impacted upon by the restrictions on scale and height and the need to minimise the impact on its genteel surroundings. Sliding windows are set flush with the brickwork to reinforce the reading of the form and are placed to give a reserved relationship between the house and the external spaces; a contemporary interpretation of the formal relationship between the surrounding houses and their gardens. 

Internal spaces are simple expressions of the external form establishing a spatial dynamic between the stepping of the site and the stepping of the form. This re-enforces the clear sequence from entry to livingroom; terminating with the view back through the dinning area. Extensive roof lighting floods the centre of the plan with light and establishes a relationship with surrounding trees and the sky as a distant view.

Overlooked on all sides, the roof has been treated as a non Corbusian 'fifth elevation' with a flush brick parapet blending with the colour matched paving slab to give a seamless and homogenous appearance when viewed from the surrounding houses. This imbues the house with an abstract quality, which places this roofscape in the realm of an uninhabited landscape or folly, particularly when seen emerging above the surrounding garden walls.