The restored Lighthouse is set back from the shoreline across the sand dunes.

The Lighthouse

This 18th century lighthouse, which appears in the original text of Robinson Crusoe, was sensitively converted for residential use. Studio Mackereth added a single-storey glass and timber extension to create a kitchen, dining and living area as well as two bathrooms, while outside there is a newly landscaped garden.

A new steel and glass lantern with a domed roof was also added at the top of the tower. Curved wrap-around seating and a sleeping platform offer dramatic 360-degree panoramic views of the Norfolk countryside, the sandy beach and the North Sea beyond.

Location: Norfolk

Date: 2012

Client: Private

Floor Area: 230 sqm

Photographer: Simon Upton, Will Eckersley, The Modern House

My Modern House
November 2018
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August 2020
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World of Interiors
October 2013
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Rather than replicating the original conical structure, Mackereth accessed her inner Brunelleschi to conjure up a wonderful glazed dome.
Matt Gibberd, The World of Interiors
A sleeping platform under the segmented dome affords panoramic views of the sea and the Norfolk landscape.
A wrap-around leather banquette seat, which tones with the colour of the North Sea, is perched higher than the sea gulls in flight to provide the perfect vantage point.
The bathroom is clad in white painted timber boards.
Curved timber walls have been added and mounted on a sliding track to enable the bedroom to be closed off from the staircase in the tower.
Plans showing the Lighthouse refurbished with its new domed lantern room.