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Evening Standard
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Cat Olley

Inside Forest Hill’s ‘Sail House’, the 3,000 square foot eco home with an unorthodox defence against heatwaves

Architect Matthew Borowiecki has made his mark on Forest Hill’s Ringmore Rise in a few quiet ways – here a conversion, there a new roof and remodel for what was once a bungalow.

That he has proved so popular with renovating neighbours is a ringing endorsement of the house he and wife Lesley designed here almost 20 years ago, on one of London’s highest peaks.

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