A contemporary house with mock-Tudor influences in south-west London and the redevelopment of a former labourer’s cottage in Suffolk have become the latest additions to the RIBA House of the Year 2022 shortlist.

The projects, by Surman Weston and Haysom Ward Miller Architects, take the fifth and sixth places on the shortlist, alongside homes by David Kohn, RX Architects, Sandy Rendel and Prewett Bizley. A seventh and final shortlisted scheme is due to be announced next week.

Surman Weston’s Surbiton Springs home, which is also known as Ditton Hill House, was one of two projects from the practice to win a RIBA London Award earlier this year. The other – Hackney School of Food – went on to win the Stephen Lawrence Prize.

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