This exemplary four-bedroom house spans three wonderfully executed, interconnected volumes, each clad in arresting black-painted larch cladding. Architect-designed, the building was constructed by TG Designer Homes and has a strong connection between indoors and out. There is a central cobbled courtyard with a stately maple tree, and a large rear garden, where a treehouse and a separate self-contained office with a kitchen and a shower room are located. The house is in Broadstairs, Kent, minutes away from the sandy beaches of Botany Bay and close to the station, which runs services to London St Pancras in 80 minutes.