Ferry House is located on a modest site at Ferry Point on Hayling Island with water frontage to Langstone Harbour to the north, a row of houses to the east and the Langstone Harbour Board compound to the west. The brief was to create a comfortable family home, a place to entertain and to provide springboard for activities on and off the water and to make the most in this unique location and dramatic views.
A rolling entrance gate opens to reveal a small driveway where a recessed entrance porch and door lined in brick and iroko provides a sheltered and welcoming arrival. An entrance hall with built in storage opens into a double-height stair well with full height glazing and secret door to the garage. The stair is white ppc steel with oak treads and glass balustrade. On the first floor the south end of the house is occupied by a master bedroom suite with views of the eastern Solent and the Isle of Wight. To the north there is a kitchen, dining, living room with large sliding glass doors that open onto a generous roof deck on the west and north sides, protected from the prevailing wind by an oversize glass balustrade. A dark grey ppc steel external stair with glass balustrade connects the first floor deck to the landscaped garden, swimming pool, sea wall and slipway.
On the ground floor are three bedrooms and a family room with large glass doors which slide open onto the garden. Also at ground level is a large shower / changing room, an integrated garage, plant room and external store for boat equipment.
The new house is positioned on a building line established by the group of houses to the east and sits toward the east side of the site to maintain access to the slipway. The house is conceived as a white timber box on a black brick base. The base splays out on the west side in response to the site boundary, to provide a slot for the external stair and to form single storey accommodation and covered external space with roof deck above.
The brick is Egernsund Tegl Royal Night in Danish Format and the timber cladding is factory-painted softwood in RAL 9016, satin. Windows are Cortizo with solar control glass and natural anodised aluminium frames. Copings and trims are grey polyester powder coated aluminium. Durable and sustainably sourced tropical hardwood forms the deck, external stair treads, living room ceiling, areas of external cladding, oriel window, front door and entrance gate. The first floor finish is pale grey engineered oak chosen to blend with the naturally weathered external deck. The ground floor finish is 600x600mm format porcelain tile throughout including external terraces. Doors are solid core with satin stainless ironmongery. Skirtings and architrave are simple square edge profile, surface mounted. All internal joinery is white satin finish, walls white matt. Internal joinery is oak veneer.
Project Details
Client: Lisa and Simon Montague
GIA: 270m2
Status: Completed 2019
Awards: RIBA South awards 2021 (shortlist), RIBA House of the Year 2021 (longlist)
Images: Richard Butler
Design Team
Design: John Pardey Architects
Project Architect: Richard Butler
Structure: Eckersley O’Callahan
Landscape: Nicholas Dexter Studio
LVIA: David Hares
Planning: Henry Adams LLP
Daylight & Right to Light: Gordon Ingram Associates
QS: APS Associates
Ecology: ECOSA
Flood Risk: Ambiental
Building Control: Assent Building Control Ltd
SAP: Darren Evans Ltd
CDM: Framptons Project Solutions
Contractors
Construction Manager: Rice Projects
Groundworks: Groundworks 360
Glazing: Windowise Trade Ltd
Kitchen & Joinery: Kraftwork
Mechanical: Aqua
Electrical: Meridian
Steelwork: Blue Cube
Roof: Danosa
Suppliers
Brick: All About Brick
Timber cladding: Vincent Timber
Floor tiles: Ceramic Solutions Ltd
Wood floor: Reeve Wood
Hardwood: Woodtrend Ltd
Bathrooms: The Big Bath Company