Quarry House
Cut into the hillside, with the whole city laid out below it.
The house
Wray cut the house into a steep hillside plot nobody else would touch, stepping it down the slope on stone terraces so that every principal room looks out over the city. The pool is cantilevered past the retaining wall and appears, from inside, to end in mid air above the lights.
The stone was quarried three miles away and dressed on site. Its mass holds temperature so steadily that the heating rarely runs between April and October, which on a west facing slope is not a small thing.
What makes it
Load-bearing stone, quarried and dressed locally
Cantilevered infinity pool over the city
Terraced garden stepping down the slope
Thermal mass construction, minimal heating demand
Guide price
$5,100,000
4 bd · 4 ba · 366 m²
Architect
Brannon Wray
Completed
2020
Internal area
366 m²
Plot
1,980 m²
Tenure
Freehold
EPC
C
Neighbourhood
Quarry Bay
Who to speak to
Photographs
Entrance hall
Kitchen
Library
Internal courtyard
Specification
What is
in it
Interior
Six-hundred-millimetre stone walls
Lime plaster finish
Reclaimed elm floors
Two open hearths
Exterior
Walled courtyard
Stone terrace
Kitchen garden
Workshop outbuilding
Services
Air-source heat pump
Solar thermal
Private drainage
Fibre to the property
Where it is
Quarry Bay
47.5301 N - 122.5102 W
Quarry Bay
5 listed
26 days median
