While in Britain, Kaufmann joined the MARS group and worked on a number of institutional buildings, designing a factory in Slough and a section of King Alfred School in Hampstead (sadly now demolished). His main output, however, was progressive residential housing; designs included a house for himself in Welwyn Garden City, temporary housing for evacuees in Hertfordshire and a house in Wimbledon with architect Elisabeth Benjamin.

As Christine Thomson writes in her work on emigre architects in Britain, "The preoccupation with aspects of health and housing, which had been a key feature of the scientific investigations on which the first modern mass-housing experiments in Germany were based, is also evident in other works of this period by Kaufmann". This includes the four seaside houses in East Preston, of which this is one. The design of the houses provides for the inclusion of the outdoors in everyday living: maximum glazing on the south-facing aspect, huge living room doors and first-floor bedrooms leading onto a large balcony. Thomson notes, "These are meant to ensure the inhabitant's maximum enjoyment of the seaside climate."

Similar interest in open-air facilities can be found in Kaufmann's institutional buildings. Thomson goes on to note that "Kaufmannn's position among the German architects in Britain is somewhat unique ... he was the only one who managed to achieve a modus vivendi with the British context while simultaneously remaining utterly loyal to modernist principles."

The RIBA Online archive holds a fascinating selection of photographs of these houses taken shortly after completion in 1936, along with others from the early 1980s. Floorplans and architectural models are also featured in Ella Carter's 1937 book Seaside Houses and Bungalows.