Make your escape

DETAILS

What A new house with four bedrooms plus self-contained guest accommodation

Where Suffolk

Architect IF_DO

Main contractor H.G. Frost

Structural engineer Frith:Blake

For Louisa Brown, summer holidays always meant Thorpeness, a seaside hamlet on the East Anglia coast about 30 miles south of Great Yarmouth. “The summers of my childhood were all spent here, and I’ve brought my own children here since they were babies – they are now teenagers. It’s a special, charming, unspoilt village.”

So when “a slightly dilapidated 1950s chalet bungalow” became available, Suffolk-based Louisa saw this as a perfect opportunity to create a holiday home for her immediate and extended