Sunken House

The Sunken House at 75a De Beauvoir Road, is a house in De Beauvoir Town, in the London Borough of Hackney. It was built in 2007 to designs by David Adjaye.[1][2] It was built for the photographer Ed Reeve.[1]

The house is clad in stained black cedar.[1] The site for the house was excavated to the level of a basement.[1]

The website of David Adjaye Associates writes that the house "both extends and polarises the usual pattern" of the surrounding semi-detached Victorian villas, with a private courtyard below the house and its panoramic views.[2] The bedrooms of the house are on the first floor with a large studio on the second floor.[2] The full height of the house cannot be seen from the street, and it is not overlooked by its neighbours.[2] The design of the house mirrors nearby workshop buildings and matches the size of the Victorian villas that adjoin it.[2]

On April Fools' Day 2015 Reeve submitted a planning application for a private railway station for Crossrail 2 which would be built directly underneath the house.[3] Reeve and his family would access the trains by the means of travellators that would accelerate to the speed of the passing trains to enable them to board without disruption.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Sunken House". UK Modern House website. UK Modern House. Retrieved 31 December 2025.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Sunken House". David Adjaye Associates website. David Adjaye Associates. Retrieved 31 December 2025.
  3. ^ a b Fearson, Amy (1 April 2015). "Private Crossrail station planned underneath Adjaye-designed London house". Dezeen. Retrieved 31 December 2025.
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