The Cloud House: unique pastel pink eco-friendly Disney-style home for sale ‘off plan’

The unusual property was inspired by a Gothic church and Miami Art Deco architecture
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A totally unique, eco-friendly “Disney-style” house in north London is up for sale, although it hasn’t been built yet.

The Cloud House — actually a pair of adjoining pastel pink and teal houses inspired by Miami Art Deco — was designed by architect Peter Morris. It won planning permission from Camden Council in July 2020 after provoking polarised reactions among neighbours in Gospel Oak.

The two new houses will replace the “environmentally terrible”, heat-leaking Victorian house Mr Morris currently lives in with his wife, TV producer Emma Kennedy, and their teenage daughter, as well as a neighbouring plot of land.

Originally, the couple planned to live in one and sell the next-door house once the project was completed. Difficulty raising funds to build both, mean they are selling one house before building starts.

How the top-floor kitchen could look
Peter Morris

The slightly complicated arrangement means the buyer would buy Mr Morris’s existing house while he would keep the plot of land next door. They would then demolish the Victorian property and build the two Cloud Houses. The architect estimates the process would take about 18 months from sale to completion.

The house is on the market for £1.2 million, with the additional cost of the building project expected to be £800,000. The original plan saw the completed house valued at £2.25 million.

“We’ve got a complete design for the inside, right down to the make of oven, but now the buyer has the opportunity to completely change the interior design if they want to,” said Mr Morris.

“It’s currently designed as a four-bedroom, four-bathroom, upside down house but someone could change the number of rooms and the layout. There’s a rooftop swimming pool, which could probably be made bigger and they might not want the interior design as exuberant as we’ve planned it.”

The property attracted attention for its distinctive design featuring multiple extravagantly curved windows inspired by the nearby Church of St Martin. Built in 1865, the Grade I-listed church was described by architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner (1902-83) as “the craziest of London’s Victorian churches”, due mainly to its incomplete-looking towers and William Morris stained-glass windows.

In line with recent trends in architecture for individuality, bold colour palettes and fun, the current interior design features contrasting colours and patterns, cow-print terrazzo worktops and neon yellow accessories in the kitchen, pale turquoise staircase, and polka-dot tiles on the roof terrace and throughout the house.

Environmentally friendly features include grey water recycling, underfloor heating powered by an air source heat pump, and near Passivhaus levels of airtightness and insulation.

“If Antoni Gaudi was developing houses today, we think this might have been his signature style,” the listing on Unique Property Company’s website reads.

“We’ve had some good interest from people interested in design who want to live in something very different to an ordinary pitched roof house,” said Mr Morris.

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