Westbury Lodge
Tarrant Gunville Pavilion
Poised above rolling parkland in rural Dorset, The Tarrant Gunville Pavilion is a contemporary residential retreat that reinterprets the legacy of historic English pavilions. Designed in close collaboration with Peter Thompson Architects, the project responds to a richly layered landscape that once framed Dorset’s largest country house.
Project Director: Sean Daly
Project Leads: Adam Radwanski, Mark Senior
Contractor: Howarth Construction
Structural Engineer: Vincent Design Engineering
The house is conceived as a quiet, horizontal presence in the landscape, defined by a continuous terrace that wraps around all four elevations. This generous threshold blurs interior and exterior, with all principal living spaces oriented to frame sweeping views of the surrounding countryside. The design emphasises permeability, creating a living environment that opens fully to nature while offering a sense of shelter and retreat.
Set within an open rural setting, the building engages its site through low-impact strategies—passive solar orientation, natural cross-ventilation, and regionally sourced materials—while its restrained material palette reflects the client’s vision of warmth, simplicity, and tactility. Externally, render, masonry and timber complement the internal palette of limewash, oak and linen which evokes a calm domesticity.