New home design wins top award (From Salisbury Journal)

New home design wins top award

8:52am Monday 4th December 2006 in

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A SUMPTOUS £3m family home designed and developed by a father and son team in the New Forest has won the house building industry's equivalent of the Oscars.

Tim and Simon Moxey, from Ringwood, picked up gold in the UK's best luxury house category in the Daily Telegraph What House? Awards.

The breathtaking seaside residence in Poole, Dorset, has been described as both timeless and innovative.

The judges at the awards said: "It is the most sumptuously finished and fitted house ever to be judged by the competition panel. The building should, in due time, receive listed status."

The Moxeys also picked up silver for the best landscape design at the home, named Western House.

Their business - Forum Homes - is a small, family run development enterprise based at Ringwood, with the design work carried out in-house by chartered architects Moxey Associates.

Tim said: "We are delighted Western House has been singled out for such lavish praise from judges at the top of their field.

"They said the whole property flows seamlessly from room to room, from interior to exterior, with the garden landscape echoing the mood of the home."

"As responsible developers, we also ensured that energy conservation and sustainability were at the top of the agenda, as well as looks."

Western House, split over five levels with six bedrooms, ornamental ponds and a terraced swimming pool, is located on a 1.25-acre site.

The annual awards, in their 25th year, were held at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London. The event, the biggest in the house-building calendar, was established in order to reward groundbreaking development in the UK.