Cormorant House

Meis spent two winters on the headland before drawing anything. The result is a house that reads as a single low bar from the approach and opens completely on the seaward side, where a forty-metre run of glazing gives onto the water without a visible frame at eye level.

The structure is a steel portal wrapped in charred larch, sitting on a board-formed concrete plinth that steps with the ground rather than cutting into it. Every internal fitting is white oak, made by the same joiner who worked on the architect’s own house.

It has never been on the open market.