We recently launched a new Property Collections feature on The Modern House website, reflecting the diversity of Britain’s modern architectural heritage. As well as the best one-off Modernist houses, the Collections cover loft apartments, conversions, plots of land, new homes, flats on the Barbican Estate, Span houses, and much more.

Each week in our new ‘Spotlight on’ series a member of The Modern House team will select their favourite properties – past and present – within one of the Collections categories.

This week our Marketing Coordinator, Emma, has selected two Modern Classics …

Doctor Rogers’ House, London
This modest single-storey house in Wimbledon was an important landmark in post-war British architecture. Built in the late 1960s, it spliced the aesthetic of Californian Modernism with the loose, ad hoc flexibility created through the use of high-tech industrial systems, all filtered through a bold Pop sensibility. Grade II* listed, the house was undeniably experimental, combining pre-fabricated elements, an unconcealed steel frame and integral furniture.

Haveringland, Norfolk
Located in a tranquil corner of rural Norfolk, this RIBA award-winning house was designed by the celebrated architect David Kohn and completed in 2010. The three-bedroom house, situated in approximately an acre of grounds, is arguably one of the finest examples of residential architecture built in this country during the last decade. A series of simple, vaulted spaces over a single storey, the design relies on the refined use of materials (such as shuttered concrete and painted brick) and careful craftsmanship of the construction.