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The Dyfi estuary at dusk seen from the headland above Marram: the tide far out across four miles of ribbed sand, water channels catching the last light, hills low on the horizon.

Opening May 2027 · the list is open

Eleven rooms above the estuary

A stone house on the Dyfi, with 600m of tidal sand at the door. Nothing is finished and nothing is bookable. This is the list.

1,204 ahead of you · 7 of 11 rooms plastered · 40 invitations in the first season

Where the build has got to

Rooms plastered
7 / 11
Slate landed
12 Aug
Kitchen
Commissioned
First season
40invitations

Sleeps 25 across 11 rooms. No clock on this page — the date moves, and a countdown to a date that moves is a promise we would rather not make.

The land, and what it does

The incoming tide running fast up a wide sand channel at dusk, a sheet of water advancing over ribbed sand.

The tide

It comes in across four miles of sand faster than you walk.

4.1m spring range

Five material samples laid out on dark slate and photographed from above: riven slate, oiled oak, folded oatmeal wool, a lime plaster tile, and a polished brass plate.

The board

The palette is a photograph of the building

Five samples went to the joiner in March. Every colour on this site is one of them measured, so the swatch and the plate cannot disagree.

Riven slate
Ffestiniog, 34 miles
DS-04
Oiled oak
Powys, air-dried four years
OO-12
Oatmeal wool
Trefriw mill
OW-07
Lime plaster
Mixed on site
LP-01
Polished brass
Birmingham, unlacquered
BP-09

At working distance

What it will feel like

The board is the specification. This is the specification at the scale you would put a hand on.

  • The split face of a single piece of riven Welsh slate, blue-grey, catching a cold light across the cleavage plane.
    Riven slateDS-04

    Roof and the four window sills that take weather.

  • Oiled oak floorboards close up, the grain running diagonally, one hand-cut nail set into the board.
    Oiled oakOO-12

    Floors throughout, and the long table.

  • Undyed oatmeal wool blanket folded once, the coarse loose weave in soft daylight.
    Oatmeal woolOW-07

    Blankets and the stair runner. Undyed.

  • A chalky lime-plastered wall surface, trowel marks and small pits raking across the frame under low side light.
    Lime plasterLP-01

    Every wall. It moves with the building instead of cracking.

  • An unlacquered brass door lever on a bare plastered wall, fingerprints and patina visible.
    Polished brassBP-09

    Handles, hooks, and the eleven room tags.

  • A row of small brass hooks screwed into a bare oak board on a plastered wall. Every hook is empty.
    The hooks, still empty

    Screwed to the board in June. The tags are cast and lying in a drawer.

A brass room tag on a worn leather fob with one iron key, photographed from above.

The rooms

Eleven tags on eleven hooks

Every room has a name, a gable and a stage it has got to. 3 of the 11 are spoken for by the people who funded the roof.

Marked rooms are wave one — furnished and released first.

Four stages

What each stage actually looks like

7 of the 11 are past the second of these. Three are past the last.

  1. A narrow stone staircase in the unfinished house, bare plaster walls, worn oak treads, a small window part way up throwing a hard rectangle of light.
    Shell

    The stair, which is the whole problem

    This is why there is no lift and why the access statement says what it says. The core is the building; taking it out is not something the building survives.

  2. A deep-set stone window reveal in a bare plastered room looking out over the estuary at low water, the sill worn oak, the room dark around the bright opening.
    Plastered

    Plastered, and nothing else yet

    Three coats of lime and a week between each. The window was there before we were; the sill is the one piece of oak in the house we did not buy.

  3. A long run of unfinished oak kitchen cabinetry against a plastered wall, no doors hung, a deep stone sink set in, a folded dust sheet on the worktop.
    Fitted

    Fitted: the run, no doors

    Eleven feet, one run, no island — the room is eleven feet wide and an island would be a wall. Commissioned in June from a workshop in Machynlleth.

  4. A finished bedroom: one low oak bed with an undyed wool blanket folded across it, bare plaster walls, a deep window onto the estuary, nothing else in the room.
    Furnished

    Furnished, which means finished

    A bed, a blanket, a window and a floor. If it looks like something is missing, nothing is — this is the whole specification.

The build log

What has actually happened

Four entries in twelve months, which is the real rate. We would rather write nothing than write something.

  1. Eleven tonnes of riven Welsh slate stacked on bearers in the yard, against the boundary wall.

    12 Aug 2026

    The slate landed

    Eleven tonnes from Ffestiniog, stacked in the yard for a fortnight while the roofers finish the west pitch. It is a colder grey than the sample, which we prefer and did not plan.

  2. An unfinished room at Marram: bare lime plaster, a deep window, a step-ladder.

    30 Jul 2026

    Seven rooms plastered

    Lime, three coats, and each one needs a week between them, which is why this took the whole summer and why the last four are next spring's problem.

The whole log

The sequence

Five emails, which is the part nobody ships

A waitlist lives in the inbox, not on the page. These are real table-based documents with a plain-text part, built from the same tokens.

  1. Confirm your address01/5

    Email 01

    One tap and you're on the list

    Somebody put this address on the list for Marram. If that was you, confirm it below and we will stop bothering you until there is something true to say.

    If it wasn't you, ignore this. Nothing happens, and the address is deleted in seven days.

    Confirm this address

    Immediately

  2. You're on the list02/5

    Email 02

    You're on the list

    1,204

    your place in the queue

    The first season goes out as 40 invitations in two waves — February and April. Everyone here gets forty-eight hours before the public each time.

    What the waves mean

    Straight after confirming

  3. Two rooms, if you know the estuary03/5

    Email 03

    The only ask, and it is a small one

    Dry marram grass on the dune above the house, bending in the wind.

    We are not advertising this and we are not going to. The list has grown by people telling one other person, which is the rate we can actually build for.

    Copy the link

    About a fortnight later

All five, and when each one arrives