Clayworth
By ArkleBoyce Architects
Client Private
Award RIBA East Award 2025
The award winner tells us: "Clayworth is a new-build private dwelling designed for accessible use for a stroke victim and her partner. The dwelling, set within the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, is a contemporary and contextual response to the specific needs of the clients and embraces the immediate and wider landscape.
The jury says: "The ambition is stylish living, and this is elegantly delivered throughout the house. The only space not fully accessible is the client鈥檚 private first-floor study 鈥� an eyrie overlooking the garden and the sedum roof areas, a space for stepping away from the flow of daily life, a retreat. A good-sized gym for medical exercise, a shower/changing room, utility rooms and a grown-up 鈥榩lay room鈥� complete with an impressive wine storage wall extend the space in a more deliberately utilitarian basement suite of rooms 鈥� all accessible by lift.
The house opens completely to the garden along the south-west. The linear form is reflected in thoughtful landscaping and meadow planting. This is a house totally at peace in its setting, delivering generous, flexible and accessible space to a family who wanted something special 鈥� and, working collaboratively with their architects, they got exactly what they wanted."
Contractor Austin Worboys
Structural engineer Barton Engineers
Environmental/M&E engineer Vector Design
Landscape architect Jane Brockbank Gardens
Gross internal area 477尘虏
