RIBA opens door on 20-strong House of the Year longlist

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House at Lough Beg, by McGonigle McGrath Architects

Source: Aidan McGrath

Suffolk Cottage, by Haysom Ward Miller Architects

Source: Richard Fraser

Surbiton Springs, by Surman Weston

Source: Johan Dehlin

The Parchment Works in Northamptonshire, by Will Gamble Architects

Source: Johan Dehlin

Morlands Dutch Barn in West Sussex, by Sandy Rendel Architects

Source: Jim Stephenson

The Red House, in Dorset, by David Kohn Architects

Source: Will Pryce

Ostro Passivhaus at Kippen, in Scotland, by Paper Igloo

Source: David Barbour

Leyton House, by McMahon Architecture

Source: Fernando Manoso

Seabreeze, at Camber Sands, by RX Architects

Source: Richard Chivers

The Den at Tighnabruaich, by Technique Architecture and Design in collaboration with Stallan-Brand

Source: Dapple Photography

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RIBA has released the 20-project longlist for its House of the Year Award 2022, which features homes by McGonigle McGrath, David Kohn, Surman Weston and Will Gamble Architects.

McGonigle McGrath won the 2019 award with tight-budget dream-home House Lessans, in County Down, Northern Ireland. The practice’s 2022 entry – House at Lough Beg – has already won a RIBA National Award and been named Northern Ireland’s house of the year by the Royal Ulster Society of Architects.

Three other House of the Year longlist entries picked up a RIBA National Award last month: Haysom Ward Miller Architects’ Suffolk Cottage extension and refurbishment project; Surman Weston’s new-build Surbiton Springs detached house in south London; and Will Gamble Architects’ Parchment Works remodelling of a grade II-listed 17^th century factory and old cattle shed in Northamptonshire.

Sandy Rendel Architects was shortlisted in 2021’s House of the Year Awards for its Slot House in south London. This year the practice makes the longlist with its residential conversion of a 1930s Dutch barn in West Sussex, which was shortlisted in RIBA’s South East awards earlier this year.

David Kohn Architects also makes the House of the Year longlist with its Red House family home in rural Dorset, described by the practice as “inspired by English houses from the arts and crafts to the Smithsons”.

Elsewhere on the list is Paper Igloo’s striking black timber-clad eco-home, Ostro Passivhaus, in rural Stirlingshire, which was inspired by the designs of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, and McMahon Architecture’s four-storey Leyton House home in Waltham Forest, north-east London.

The shortlist for the awards – and the eventual winner - will be revealed as part of the Channel 4 TV show Grand Designs: House of the Year, starting in the autumn.