This elegant steel and glass house was designed by the architect Jonathan Ellis-Miller for the artist Mary Reyner Banham (1929 - 2019) in the early 1990s as a studio and country retreat.

Mary Reyner Banham was a noted artist and the widow of Reyner Banham (1922-88), one of the most important cultural critics of the 20th century. Banham’s best-known books are Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies and Theory and Design in the First Machine Age. He was a noted forward thinker, writing about sustainable design, Brutalism and even Pop Art before many other commentators had caught on these cultural trends.

He saw the potential in the young Ellis-Miller and, with his wife, commissioned him to create this remarkable building, although sadly, he never lived to see it completed.