![Mortehoe / McLean Quinlan - Windows, Facade](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5a9c/b2d0/f197/cc56/2c00/029a/medium_jpg/Camel_Quarry_House.jpg?1520218822)
-
Architects: McLean Quinlan
- Year: 2015
-
Photographs:Will Scott
-
Manufacturers: VELUX Group, Farrow and Ball, Solid Floor, Velfac
Text description provided by the architects. This house in located in a small village on the north Devon Coast. The site is accessed down a long drive and the building is tucked up against the slope of the site, to make the most of the long views down to the sea from the upper levels.
![Mortehoe / McLean Quinlan - Windows, Facade](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5a9c/b70e/f197/cc6a/5300/00d1/medium_jpg/mortehoe7.jpg?1520219908)
A stone gable end is the first glimpse you get of this building, with an industrial chimney, dark against the grey stone. The clients asked us to include some elements of a New England beach house, and so an external material of green oak boarding was used together with the local stone.
![](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5a9c/b2b1/f197/cc6a/5300/00bc/newsletter/eyrieGFplan.jpg?1520218793)
Built as a family holiday home, and designed to maximise the number of bedrooms and open living space, the building is simple in form - a neat pitched volume coupled with a generous entrance porch. This porch provides a formal entrance as well as direct access to a large mud room for drying wetsuits from days out surfing and muddy boots from walking the costal paths.
![Mortehoe / McLean Quinlan - Table, Chair](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5a9c/b61c/f197/cc56/2c00/02a7/medium_jpg/mortehoe3.jpg?1520219664)
The building is split down the middle by a central stair. On entering, the hall opens up to a double height space with views of the garden. The main living space is open plan, with a separate games space for the children and the practical necessities of a large larder and laundry.
![](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5a9c/b2fc/f197/cc56/2c00/029b/newsletter/eyriesection1plan.jpg?1520218869)
Up the open tread stairs, on the first floor, the split volumes separate the master bedroom suite from the main bedroom wing. Here, a long corridor with a single pane window at the far end, leads to four double bedrooms. Half way along the corridor is a secret stair, tucked among the linen cupboards, which winds up to two further attic bedrooms above.
![Mortehoe / McLean Quinlan - Bathtub, Windows, Bathroom](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5a9c/b692/f197/cc6a/5300/00cf/medium_jpg/mortehoe5.jpg?1520219780)