Unlike the Corbusian model where the important spaces were raised up in the air, here the main living spaces are on the ground floor and the bedrooms are conventionally on the first - though there is a guest flat downstairs, tucked away peacefully looking out to the woodland out the back, with a sliding wall to turn its one large bedroom into two small ones if required.

Nor is it assumed, as Corb did at the start of the 1930s, that servants will do all the cooking and washing. So the first room you come to, having stepped up from a little entrance lobby, is the kitchen with its island worktop in polished granite, its Terrazzo floor extending to a patio outside. It’s the heart of a family house - the clients are two eye surgeons and their two young children - and accordingly gets pole position, and a commanding view. The bulge of the “drop” intrudes on one side of the kitchen, and turns out to house the utility room. A chute in the ceiling delivers clothes from the bathroom above.

From the kitchen, you can see through, and slightly up, to the main double-height living room with its huge sliding windows opening out onto the garden. There, the floor is polished travertine marble. A corner of the room is made of two sliding panels which open to reveal that purple leather-lined boudoir - in fact a little television room, sticking out of the back of the house - which in turn leads back into a tall, book-lined study.