Upstairs, the main event is the bathroom to the main bedroom. This occupies the top of the “Drop” and has lots of little glass lenses set into it to provide daylight - and to sparkle from within at night. It is a strange, almost spaceship-like, space, dominated by an oval stainless steel “Ursula” bath by designers Submarine. The childrens’ bathroom is cleverly inserted into the space behind the Drop. And to complete that 1930s healthy-modern-living feel, the main bedroom leads out onto an enclosed roof terrace. Just as those pioneering modernists did, you could sleep out here in the summer.

Visiting the Drop House is a joy - not only because it is somehow pleasing to find that the old modern-versus-trad game is still going on, out there on the fringes of the countryside, but because it is such a thoughtful house, in a way that we’ve come to expect from Hudson Featherstone. All the standard ingredients of a medium-to-large family house are re-examined. Where there is a need for openness, it is very spacious. When there is a need for privacy, the spaces close right down to become positively intimate. The outside spaces are properly visually connected to the inside - seems obvious, but it’s amazing how seldom housebuilders think about the views from house to garden to surrounding countryside. Such details count.

Perhaps best of all, this is a house that I just know children will love. It is a great big toy, a castle, a theatre. This is to do with the circulation routes - there is more than one way to get from place to place inside it - and the semi-secret hiding spaces, the unexpected viewpoints and galleries and ramps. For a child, this house is a great deal more than a place to live. It is the ultimate activity centre. I daresay the adults can relate to that, too.

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