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RIBA House of the Year 2022 Longlist News

15 + 12 July 2022

UK’s best new homes – RIBA announces House of the Year 2022 Longlist

Shortlist and winner to be revealed on Channel 4’s Grand Designs: House of the Year

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced the longlist for the 2022 RIBA House of the Year.

Among the 20 projects in the running to win the UK’s most prestigious award for a new house or extension are:

A striking black timber-clad eco-home, inspired by the designs of revered Scottish architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh in rural Stirlingshire (Ostro Passivhaus)
A remodelled house that rises from the ruins of a 17th Century parchment factory and old cattle shed in Northampton (The Parchment Works)
A four-storey town house added to the end of a 1960’s terrace, in Waltham Forest, North East London (Leyton House)
A playful red-brick family home nestled in Derbyshire’s suburbs (Derwent Valley Villa)

The 20 longlisted homes are:

Derwent Valley Villa (Derbyshire) by Blee Halligan
House at Lough Beg (Northern Ireland) by McGonigle McGrath
Leyton House (London) by McMahon Architecture Ltd
Mere House (Cambridgeshire) by Mole Architects
Mews House Deep Retrofit (London) by Prewett Bizley Architects
Mountain View (London) by CAN
Norfolk Barn (Norfolk) by 31/44 Architects and Taylor Made Space
Ostro Passivhaus (Scotland) by Paper Igloo
Peeking house (London) by Fletcher Crane Architects
Ravine House (Derbyshire) by Chiles Evans + Care Architects Ltd
Seabreeze (East Sussex) by RX Architects
Suffolk Cottage (Suffolk) by Haysom Ward Miller Architects
Surbiton Springs (London) by Surman Weston
The Cowshed (Dorset) by Crawshaw Architects LLP
The Den (Scotland) by Technique Architecture and Design in collaboration with Stallan-Brand
The Dutch Barn (West Sussex) by Sandy Rendel Architects Ltd
The Garden Studio (Norfolk) by Brisco Loran and James Alder Architect
The Library House (London) by Macdonald Wright Architects
The Parchment Works (Suffolk) by Will Gamble Architects
The Red House (Dorset) by David Kohn Architects

The shortlist and winner of the RIBA House of the Year 2022 will be revealed in the seventh series of Channel 4’s Grand Designs: House of the Year, produced by Naked West (a Fremantle label), airing later this year.

Derwent Valley Villa, Duffield, Derbyshire, design by Blee Halligan:

photo © Henry Woide

House at Lough Beg, Northern Ireland, design by McGonigle McGrath Architects:

photo : Aidan McGrath

Leyton House, London, design by McMahon Architecture:

photograph © Fernando Manoso

Mere House (1704_Wuduhus), Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, design by Mole Architects:

photo : Matt Smith

Mountain View, London, design by CAN:

photograph © Jim Stephenson

Norfolk Barn (BlueSky Barn), Church Farm, north west Norwich, design by 31/44 Architects with Taylor Made Space:

photo : Nick Dearden

Ostro Passivhaus, Kippen, Scotland, design by Paper Igloo:

photo © David Barbour

Peeking House (Tree House), Ealing, West London, by Fletcher Crane Architects:

photo © Lorenzo Zandri

Surbiton Springs (House in Ditton Hill), Surbiton, South West London, design by Surman Weston Architects:

photo : Johan Dehlin

Ravine House, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, design by Chiles Evans + Care Architects:

photo © Dug Wilder

Sea Breeze, Camber Sands beach, East Sussex, design by RX Architects:

photo : Richard Chivers

Suffolk Cottage (Stone Cottage), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, design by Haysom Ward Miller Architects:

photo : Richard Fraser

The Den, Tighnabruaich, Scotland, by Technique Architecture and Design in collaboration with Stallan-Brand:

photograph : Dapple Photography

The Dutch Barn (Morlands Farm Dutch Barn), West Sussex, design by Sandy Rendel Architects:

photo : Richard Chivers

The Garden Studio (Studio Nencini), Norwich, Norfolk, design by Alder Brisco, Architects:

photo : Nick Dearden

The Library House, London, design by Macdonald Wright Architects:

photo © Heiko Prigge

The Parchment Works, Northamptonshire, design by Will Gamble Architects:

photo © Johan Dehlin

Background:

The RIBA House of the Year award was established in 2013 and is awarded to the best new house or house extension designed by an architect in the UK. Previous winners include Alison Brooks Architects for House on the Hill (2021), McGonigle McGrath for House Lessans (2019), HaysomWardMiller for Lochside House (2018), Richard Murphy Architects for Murphy House (2016), Skene Catling de la Peña for Flint House (2015), Loyn & Co for Stormy Castle (2014) and Carl Turner Architects for Slip House (2013).

RIBA House of the Year 2022 Longlist images / information from Royal Institute of British Architects

Previously on e-architect:

9 + 8 December 2021

RIBA House of the Year 2021 winner : House on the Hill by Alison Brooks Architects

Extraordinary Gloucestershire farmhouse extension by Alison Brooks Architects named UK’s best new house