TAKE the quality and precision you find in a German car, translate that into a building and you have the Huf Haus.

In prestige property circles, the Huf is spoken of in hushed tones and afforded the kind of reverence usually reserved for period homes. Essentially it’s a house in a box, a pre-fabricated building, but don’t be fooled into thinking it’s some flimsy, flat-pack job that you could knock up yourself in no time. No, these babies are the last word in precision engineering, built to order via the third-generation Huf family firm based in Hartenfelds, West Germany, to reassuringly exacting standards.

It was heartily praised to its achingly stylish rafters by Kevin McCloud on TV’s Grand Designs, that barometer of what is cool in the world of home-building.

There is even a Huf Haus owner’s club, for goodness sake.

And now there’s one up for sale right here in Dorset, in what has to be one of the best locations, namely Studland Bay.

For a major selling point of these radical, but strangely beautiful houses is their extensive use of glass, allowing what is going on on the outside to play just as important a role in the ambience as what’s happening on the inside.

Pavilion House is one of a pair of Hufs which sit side-by-side next to a grand Edwardian house in a phenomenal setting with perfect views across the National Trust-owned Studland Cricket Club ground to the Bay with its sheltered, family-friendly bathing waters.

Astonishingly airy, it is a shining example of the Huf Haus philosohopy of creating an organic building that has a deep bond with basic materials – glass and timber – and is environmentally friendly, low-energy and, marvellously low maintenance.

Pavilion House glories in all this efficiency with underfloor heating run by an energy-scrimping oil and electric boiler.

But it’s extremely high-tech, too with the likes of electrically-operated blinds throughout, Cat 5 cabling for telecoms and computers and an extremely high level of security built into the design.

As you’d imagine, behind this free-flowing ethos comes very versatile accommodation with magnificent open-plan kitchen/dining and sitting room areas, all flooded in natural light and with amazing views from the vast windows.

From the sitting room there’s direct access to a superb terrace, constructed using Purbeck stone from the local St Aldhelm’s quarry, which, on closer inspection, contains aluminates and various other fossils – now that’s what you call a design detail!

A timber and glass balcony surrounding the house allows for a covered outside dining area, adjacent to the kitchen and dining room and the kitchen itself is stuffed with Gaggenau appliances including an oven, steam oven, microwave, induction hob, dishwasher, a wine fridge and twin-larder, deep-freeze fridges.

Yes, Pavilion House is incredibly well-designed from its computerised control system and the intelligent use of up-lighters to the Huf shelving system in the study and impressive wine cellar with Swanage brick floor and infinity wine racks for bottles, magnums and even cases.

Outside, a sweeping driveway, with electric gates leads to a substantial parking area.

The gardens are landscaped using Purbeck stone and paving while a load of mature trees, all approved by the National Trust as indigenous to the area, have been planted throughout. A private irrigation system from a well within the property keeps the grounds lush and healthy and thanks to some imaginative landscaping, the main lawn to the south of the house enjoys fabulous sea views.

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