Cove Ridge
Terraced Views of Sea and Sky in Coastal Devon
A luxurious five-bedroom home perched on a reclaimed quarry in Woolacombe, offering stunning coastline views. Its contemporary interiors reflect light, enhancing the living experience with quality from the changing environment.
Cove Ridge, is an award-winning, sustainable seaside home in North Devon, built on the site of a 1950s cottage.
The home merges modern architecture with renowned traditions of whitewashed walls and slate roofs. Integrated into the cliffside, it offers elegant privacy while maintaining impressive sea views through windows and skylights. The design positions the main living areas on the upper level and private spaces on the ground floor, creating a passive, eco-friendly energy control system.
The house showcases an array of elegant, minimalist materials—white render, ash joinery, and slate grey polished concrete—to reflect the local geology and imbue the house with depth and texture.
Light : Reflections
Cove Cottage, exposed to coastal weather and endowed with top-tier views, skilfully explores the layers of walls and roofs to establish a harmony with its setting. The innovative use of materials that either reflect or absorb light produces an elegant, minimalist environment, blurring the lines between indoors and outdoors. This interplay with light not only enhances the interior ambiance but also creates captivating echoes of the sky and horizon throughout the home.
Craft : Rough Cast Black Render and Slate
The ground level of Cove Cottage features white-render walls, renowned for their varied textured finishes that blend harmoniously with the coastal surroundings. Above, a solid, intricately carved roof rests, externally sheathed in slate. Internally, the roof is treated with rough cast render, painted in the deepest black, creating a striking contrast with the white 'ruin' concept of the lower structure.
