A waterfront house on the Sandbanks peninsula

The house sits on the harbour side of the peninsula, its principal rooms turned south-west across the water toward Brownsea Island. Built in 2016 and refined since, it favours restraint over spectacle: rendered walls in a soft off-white, full-height glazing set in slim bronze-anodised frames, and a flat roofline that keeps the eye on the horizon rather than the architecture.

The ground floor is arranged as a single connected sweep — kitchen, dining and a sitting room that opens onto a limestone terrace through sliding panels that disappear into the wall. Light moves through the day from the rear courtyard to the water, and the interior was finished to follow it: pale oak floors, plastered walls, a kitchen in smoked oak and honed stone with no visible hardware. Nothing competes with the view, which was clearly the point.

Upstairs, the principal suite takes the full width of the waterfront elevation, with a private balcony, a dressing room and a bathroom in travertine. Four further bedrooms sit along a quieter landing. A lower level holds a media room, plant and wine storage, and direct access to the integral garage.

Outside, a pontoon offers deep-water mooring with access to the harbour and the open sea beyond. The garden is small and deliberate — a lawn, a line of pleached hornbeam for privacy, and the terrace where the house meets the tide.