Beach House at Shingle Street will be open for visits, teas and cakes on Saturday 9 September 2017. The house is of significant architectural interest. It was designed and built by John Penn, 1921-2007 as one of nine small modernist houses he built in east Suffolk during the 1960s, an exhibition of which was compiled and shown in her London gallery by Margaret Howell, fashion designer, of Bawdsey. The houses still appear uncompromisingly modern, although now well over 40 years old. Penn was also an accomplished painter and furniture designer. Brought up at Bawdsey Hall, he served in the Grenadier Guards and won the Military Cross. He then qualified in architecture, partly studying in California with Neutra.

Beach House will be open from 11.00am-5.00pm, with a £5 entrance fee. For a further £5, the exhibition compiled by Margaret Howell, will be available to view with the chance to talk to Margaret, and to hear from Tony Chambers, the editor of ‘Wallpaper’, the design magazine, who owns a Penn house in Rendham. Funds raised will help to conserve Shingle Street's natural environment and historic character. Everyone is welcome. Further information annelouisepage@gmail.com