Collection · Marlowe & Fen · 2021
The Tide House
Built for two views: full water, and a mile of mud.
The house
Marlowe & Fen drew this for a site that is water for six hours and mud for six. Rather than pick a favourite, they set the principal rooms at two heights — a low room that meets the water when it is in, and a raised gallery that reads the whole flat when it is out.
The frame is Douglas fir on a stepped concrete base that follows the flood line exactly. Nothing structural sits below it.
What makes it
- Two principal levels, one for each state of the tide
- Stepped concrete base set to the flood line
- Douglas fir frame, exposed throughout
- Two hundred metres of protected foreshore
Photographs
Specification
What isin it
Interior
- Raised viewing gallery
- Wood-burning stove
- Boot and drying room
- Study over the water
Exterior
- Timber boardwalk to the spit
- Eelgrass planting scheme
- Covered store for two boats
- Outdoor shower
Services
- Air-source heat pump
- MVHR
- Rainwater harvesting
- Fibre to the property
Where it is
Thorn Reach
A tidal inlet that empties twice a day and takes the noise with it.
