The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced the longlist for the 2016 RIBA House of the Year Award, the UK’s most prestigious award for a new house or extension.
Amongst the 20 architect-designed homes in the running for the award are a contemporary part-house part-gallery on the beach in Brighton & Hove (The Narrow House), a Japanese inspired terraced house extension (House of Trace), a new family home in Jersey rising from the huge granite walls of an earlier building on the site (Le Petit Fort), a stunning beach house in Dungeness that echoes the areas former fishing huts, an ingenious and contemporary take on a traditional lean-to in Harrogate (Contemporary Lean To) and a house in Cornwall that hovers dramatically over a cliff to take in the enviable views across the Fal Estuary (The Owers House).
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The 20 new homes on the longlist for the 2016 RIBA House of the Year are:
| House | Architect | Location | |
| 1 | Ansty Plum, | Coppin Dockray | Ansty, Wiltshire, England |
| 2 | Contemporary Lean-to | Doma Architects | Harrogate, Yorkshire, England |
| 3 | Contour House | Sanei Hopkins Architects | Baslow, Derbyshire, England |
| 4 | Covert House | DSDHA | Clapham Old Town, London, England |
| 5 | Edge Hill | Sutherland Hussey Harris | Darras Hall, Newcastle upon Tyne, England |
| 6 | Garden House | Hayhurst and Co. | Hackney, London, England |
| 7 | House of Trace | Tsuruta Architects | Lewisham, London, England |
| 8 | Le Petit Fort | Hudson Architects | Jersey, Channel Islands |
| 9 | Modern Mews | Coffey Architects | London, England |
| 10 | Murphy House | Richard Murphy Architects | Hart Street, Edinburgh, Scotland |
| 11 | North Vat | Rodic Davidson Architects | Dungeness, Kent, England |
| 12 | Outhouse | Loyn & Co | Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England |
| 13 | Private House in Cumbria | Bennetts Associates | Cumbria, England |
| 14 | The Cheeran House | John Pardey Architects | Reading, Berkshire, England |
| 15 | The Narrow House | Sanei Hopkins Architects | Brighton & Hove, England |
| 16 | The Owers House | John Pardey Architects | Feock, Cornwall, England |
| 17 | House 19 | Jestico + Whiles | Old Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England |
| 18 | Private House 1109 | GA Studio Architects | Cheshire, England |
| 19 | Tin House | Henning Stummel Architects | Shepherd’s Bush, London, England |
| 20 | Zinc-House | LJR+H Chartered Architects | near Monikie, Angus, Scotland |
The RIBA House of the Year award will be broadcast as part of a special Channel 4 Grand Designs series, presented by Kevin McCloud. Now in its second year, Grand Designs: House of the Year, produced by Boundless, is to be broadcast weekly for four weeks later in the year. Featuring a selection of properties from the longlist for the UK’s most prestigious new house award, it will reveal the shortlisted and winning homes.
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