The Line Houses on Camber Sands Beach, East Sussex Homes, English Beach Architecture Images
The Line Houses on Camber Sands Beach, East Sussex
New Timber Frame Homes in southern England – design by RX Architects
16 Oct 2019
The Line Houses
Design: RX Architects
Location: Camber Sands, East Sussex, England

The Line Houses is a new build development of two detached beach houses on the sea front at Winchelsea Beach, East Sussex. The pair of houses are three stories and arranged with the living accommodation on the top floor to maximise the incredible views out across the beach. The top floor has floor to ceiling sliding glass doors leading out onto a large terrace looking out to sea.

The properties are each named Mavericks and Cloudbreak, after well known surf?s in California and Fiji with the two being referred to collectively as The Line.
Winchelsea Beach is mainly a shingle beach with views across Rye & Winchelsea Nature reserve and to Dungeness beyond. The area is designated as a highly protected SSSI which attracts a vast range of migrating birds to the unique shingle ridged wetlands. The site sits directly alongside the abandoned medieval harbour which once occupied Winchelsea Beach before it silted up and was lost. Therefore extensive arachnological work was carried out during the construction.

The build combines a braced steel frame with brick and timber infill. The steel frame requirement was engineered to suit the extreme wind and weather loadin...