House For Sale £1,950,000
Few properties enjoy such a spectacular, yet discreet, location as Haddon Lake House.
Set in seclusion amongst two acres of immaculately restored and designed gardens, Haddon Lake House is an exceptional, contemporary dwelling found in the benign Undercliff microclimate of the Isle of Wight.
This striking coastal home marries design-focused modernity, with its sanctuary landscape of lake, woods and walled garden - once memorably described in print as a "miniature Lost Garden of Heligan in a magical seaside setting". Impressive cliffs form a sheltered, secret landscape, orientated towards the south, to create sea-influenced warmth where 'subtropical' planting thrives.
The house, combining a contemporary lifestyle with privacy, offers ample leisure spaces within the gardens for entertaining, and access nearby to a secluded and inspirational natural coastline.
Designed to deck out over the impressive lake, the house itself spectacularly unites architecture with the landscape by appearing to float on the water. Both garden and house have been widely featured in national and international media, winning awards both for architecture and landscape.
The property was also recently filmed for the Channel 4 architecture programme 'George Clarke's Amazing Spaces'.
Large open plan reception, kitchen and dining area
Utility and laundry room
Cloakroom
Sitting room
Principal bedroom suite
Two further bedrooms
Family bathroom
Study
Studio/Games room
Various decked and paved terraces
Self-contained cottage
Workshops and double garage
Approximate gross internal areas -
Haddon Lake House 4148 sq. ft. (385.4 sq. m.)
Boathouse 1069 sq. ft. (99.3 sq.m.)
Workshops & Garage 608 sq. ft. (56.48 sq. m.)
Haddon Lake House, stylistically a contemporary 'boathouse' with Japanese influences, has been acknowledged for its impressive build quality aligned with environmentally conscious credentials.
The interior, filled with light and the reflections of the water, employs a cohesive palette of natural materials and glass surfaces. English limestone, wood cladding and decking, slate, soft organic paint colours, and limed oak flooring, are the keynote materials, all producing a uniform aesthetic with mellow textural themes. These natural materials tie the whole structure to its environment, producing a cool, contemporary building that blends seamlessly with its landscape.
The architects, Michael Rainey & Simon Clark, put much effort into giving the house its keynote 'green' credentials and environmentally friendly agenda. Together they produced an award-winning building that on the one hand is flooded with light, visually mellow, wedded to its landscape, while at the same time, green, comfortable, and economic to run.
Haddon Lake House sits within 2-acre gardens, formerly part of the historic pleasure grounds of Old Park, a significant Victorian marine residence dating from the 1820's. Early last century a portion of this important 'Picturesque' landscape, was separated from its mansion house, eventually overgrown, but still retaining the beguiling grandeur of its rich history. The restoration of the lake site, together with the building of Haddon Lake House, was undertaken by the current owners in 2004/5. The resulting landscape, rich in variety and the nuances of history, allows the house itself to be shown off to perfection.
The Boathouse is a recently and stylishly converted, detached single-storey barn, adjoining the walled kitchen garden. The Boathouse enjoys a superb elevated location on the site, with views over the landscape from its deck.
The accommodation features : Spacious open-plan living/dining room/ kitchen with limed oak floor. The kitchen is fully equipped with all built-in appliances and double sink.
Bedroom 1, with skylight and feature limestone floor, built-in wardrobe, en-suite bathroom with shower attachment.
Bedroom 2, skylight and limestone floor, built-in wardrobe, en-suite shower room.
The restored garden is one of many atmospheres, design themes and rich contrasts, facilitated by carefully managed transitions, offering a diverse range of experiences that belie the site's scale.
The centrepiece is the early Victorian walled kitchen garden, reconstructed from scratch, complete with period greenhouse, potting shed and quadripartite access paths arranged in a decorative potager design. Fruits, vegetables and flowers all combine in the restored organic walled garden. This vibrant, abundant planting, embraced within its structure of paths, harks back to the philosophy of ancient gardens in sustaining the body as well as the soul.
Adjoining the walled garden is a quietly contemporary courtyard - an outdoor relaxation and entertaining extension of the house. The Courtyard also acts as a cool contrast to the robust planting in the potager, and to the profusion of the adjacent lush 'subtropical' borders, where a diverse display of low maintenance plants, including tree ferns, gingers, cannas, olives, and agaves, echo the exotic Victorian garden.
To the west of the house, the gloriously tranquil one-third acre lake is enhanced with a gravity fed Victorian fountain, and unfailingly watered by incoming springs passing through an enchanting species-rich woodland.
Haddon Lake House sits within the Undercliff, a designated AONB, some 650m from the beach at Binnel Bay. The exceptional peace and tranquillity of the setting makes the house both the perfect family home and weekend coastal retreat.
The house is situated on a private road that is approached in a westerly direction from the village of St. Lawrence, 4 km to the southwest of Ventnor.
BCM will supply a list of requests, identifying clearly which items are included within the sale, which are excluded, and which may be available by separate negotiation. This list is the sole arbiter of this regardless of whether items are referred to or photographed within these particulars.
Haddon Lake House is accessed via the public highway, Old Park Road.
Haddon Lake House is offered for sale by private treaty, as a whole.
There are no public or private rights of way crossing the property.
Vacant possession will be given to the whole upon completion of the sale.
PO38 1XR
The benefit of all wayleaves and easements, if any, relating to the land will transfer to the purchaser.
Viewings strictly by appointment with BCM.
Isle of Wight Council
Band F
Council Tax: Band F
Tenure: Freehold
Business Rates: Rateable value £2475. Amount payable - Nil (Small Business Rate Relief applies)
Set in seclusion amongst two acres of immaculately restored and designed gardens, Haddon Lake House is an exceptional, contemporary dwelling found in the benign Undercliff microclimate of the Isle of Wight.
This striking coastal home marries design-focused modernity, with its sanctuary landscape of lake, woods and walled garden - once memorably described in print as a "miniature Lost Garden of Heligan in a magical seaside setting". Impressive cliffs form a sheltered, secret landscape, orientated towards the south, to create sea-influenced warmth where 'subtropical' planting thrives.
The house, combining a contemporary lifestyle with privacy, offers ample leisure spaces within the gardens for entertaining, and access nearby to a secluded and inspirational natural coastline.
Designed to deck out over the impressive lake, the house itself spectacularly unites architecture with the landscape by appearing to float on the water. Both garden and house have been widely featured in national and international media, winning awards both for architecture and landscape.
The property was also recently filmed for the Channel 4 architecture programme 'George Clarke's Amazing Spaces'.
Large open plan reception, kitchen and dining area
Utility and laundry room
Cloakroom
Sitting room
Principal bedroom suite
Two further bedrooms
Family bathroom
Study
Studio/Games room
Various decked and paved terraces
Self-contained cottage
Workshops and double garage
Approximate gross internal areas -
Haddon Lake House 4148 sq. ft. (385.4 sq. m.)
Boathouse 1069 sq. ft. (99.3 sq.m.)
Workshops & Garage 608 sq. ft. (56.48 sq. m.)
Haddon Lake House, stylistically a contemporary 'boathouse' with Japanese influences, has been acknowledged for its impressive build quality aligned with environmentally conscious credentials.
The interior, filled with light and the reflections of the water, employs a cohesive palette of natural materials and glass surfaces. English limestone, wood cladding and decking, slate, soft organic paint colours, and limed oak flooring, are the keynote materials, all producing a uniform aesthetic with mellow textural themes. These natural materials tie the whole structure to its environment, producing a cool, contemporary building that blends seamlessly with its landscape.
The architects, Michael Rainey & Simon Clark, put much effort into giving the house its keynote 'green' credentials and environmentally friendly agenda. Together they produced an award-winning building that on the one hand is flooded with light, visually mellow, wedded to its landscape, while at the same time, green, comfortable, and economic to run.
Haddon Lake House sits within 2-acre gardens, formerly part of the historic pleasure grounds of Old Park, a significant Victorian marine residence dating from the 1820's. Early last century a portion of this important 'Picturesque' landscape, was separated from its mansion house, eventually overgrown, but still retaining the beguiling grandeur of its rich history. The restoration of the lake site, together with the building of Haddon Lake House, was undertaken by the current owners in 2004/5. The resulting landscape, rich in variety and the nuances of history, allows the house itself to be shown off to perfection.
The Boathouse is a recently and stylishly converted, detached single-storey barn, adjoining the walled kitchen garden. The Boathouse enjoys a superb elevated location on the site, with views over the landscape from its deck.
The accommodation features : Spacious open-plan living/dining room/ kitchen with limed oak floor. The kitchen is fully equipped with all built-in appliances and double sink.
Bedroom 1, with skylight and feature limestone floor, built-in wardrobe, en-suite bathroom with shower attachment.
Bedroom 2, skylight and limestone floor, built-in wardrobe, en-suite shower room.
The restored garden is one of many atmospheres, design themes and rich contrasts, facilitated by carefully managed transitions, offering a diverse range of experiences that belie the site's scale.
The centrepiece is the early Victorian walled kitchen garden, reconstructed from scratch, complete with period greenhouse, potting shed and quadripartite access paths arranged in a decorative potager design. Fruits, vegetables and flowers all combine in the restored organic walled garden. This vibrant, abundant planting, embraced within its structure of paths, harks back to the philosophy of ancient gardens in sustaining the body as well as the soul.
Adjoining the walled garden is a quietly contemporary courtyard - an outdoor relaxation and entertaining extension of the house. The Courtyard also acts as a cool contrast to the robust planting in the potager, and to the profusion of the adjacent lush 'subtropical' borders, where a diverse display of low maintenance plants, including tree ferns, gingers, cannas, olives, and agaves, echo the exotic Victorian garden.
To the west of the house, the gloriously tranquil one-third acre lake is enhanced with a gravity fed Victorian fountain, and unfailingly watered by incoming springs passing through an enchanting species-rich woodland.
Haddon Lake House sits within the Undercliff, a designated AONB, some 650m from the beach at Binnel Bay. The exceptional peace and tranquillity of the setting makes the house both the perfect family home and weekend coastal retreat.
The house is situated on a private road that is approached in a westerly direction from the village of St. Lawrence, 4 km to the southwest of Ventnor.
BCM will supply a list of requests, identifying clearly which items are included within the sale, which are excluded, and which may be available by separate negotiation. This list is the sole arbiter of this regardless of whether items are referred to or photographed within these particulars.
Haddon Lake House is accessed via the public highway, Old Park Road.
Haddon Lake House is offered for sale by private treaty, as a whole.
There are no public or private rights of way crossing the property.
Vacant possession will be given to the whole upon completion of the sale.
PO38 1XR
The benefit of all wayleaves and easements, if any, relating to the land will transfer to the purchaser.
Viewings strictly by appointment with BCM.
Isle of Wight Council
Band F
Council Tax: Band F
Tenure: Freehold
Business Rates: Rateable value £2475. Amount payable - Nil (Small Business Rate Relief applies)
