House in a Combe
- Place
- Mendip Hills, Somerset
- Type
- House
- Year
- 2025
- Area
- 240 m²
- Status
- Completed
A low concrete house folded into the side of a wooded valley, so that from the lane it all but disappears.
The site falls steeply to a stream, with ancient woodland on three sides. Rather than sit on top of the slope, the house steps down it in three levels, each a single room wide, so every space has light from two sides and a view into the trees.
The structure is board-marked concrete cast on site, left exposed inside and out. It weathers with the valley rather than against it, and its mass keeps the house cool in summer and slow to lose heat in winter.
- Levels
- 3
- Floor area
- 240 m²
- Heating
- Ground-source heat pump
