This new house is built on the southern face of Shipton Hill near Bridport in West Dorset. It was constructed as a replacement for an end-of-life sprawling bungalow. The house is at once innovative, brave and unusual as well as homely, discreet and practical. It is no accident that at the heart of the building, a secret laundry chute allows the kids to fling their dirty clothes down into a large rubber basket in the utility room below. The house was built to a stringent budget but to a high level of craftsmanship and with generosity of scale and proportion and substantial investment in the building fabric. Our clients sourced local stone, reclaimed doors, and eclectic loose furniture bringing a hip, urbane edge to their dream house in the countryside.