A new, highly individual four-bedroom house overlooking a fishing lake and boat-shaped swimming pool on an eight-acre site close to the Fylde coast is clad entirely in Burlington mid-green Broughton Moor stone.

The house is designed around two opposing curves. It is two-storey, but one of the stories is below ground, giving the house the appearance of being partly submerged. There is a feature staircase that leads off the building\'s entrance hallway on to the roof terrace. It is also clad externally in the Burlington stone.

The stone was supplied with a honed finish so that it would blend with its environment yet contrast with the floor-to-roof grass banking around the property. The 30mm thick, 1200mm x 600mm stone panels are fixed in vertically laid bands to the concrete blocks that have been used to build the house.

The house is a self-build to the design of Preston-based architect Mark Heyes, with the stone being installed with the help of Peter Brandrett of specialist contractors North West Masonry.

Commenting on the decision to use Burlington\'s Broughton Moor cladding, the owner of the house, Ray Porteus, said: "Despite the fact that I operate a specialist brickwork contracting business I\'ve always wanted to use slate. So I suppose this is a dream come true.