Due to high demand, all holidays at A House for Essex are sold via a ballot. Each ballot offers you the chance to purchase a 2- or 3- night stay at A House for Essex, for up to 4 people.

The ballot for A House for Essex has now closed. 

Do sign up to our newsletter for updates on future ballots and other news from Living Architecture. 

Join other friends of The School of Life and Living Architecture on a long weekend of contemplation, reading and new horizons.

Available dates in 2019 - 

29 March - 1 April SOLD OUT

7- 10 June SOLD OUT

20- 23 September

22- 25 November

• Balancing Barn, Suffolk, sleeps 8 - see here
• Dune House, Suffolk, sleeps 9 - see here
• Long House, Norfolk, sleeps 10 - see here
• Shingle House, Kent, sleeps 8 - see here
• Life House, Wales, sleeps 6 - see here

2019 dates have sold out - if you are interested in staying at Secular Retreat in the future, please sign up to our newsletter. 

Due to high demand, all holidays at A House for Essex are sold via a ballot. Each ballot offers you the chance to purchase a 2- or 3- night stay at A House for Essex, for up to 4 people. 

The latest ballot for A House for Essex is now live, for stays from September to December 2019 - enter here.

Sign up to our newsletter for news of A House for Essex ballots, and other news from Living Architecture. 

"A tour de force of domestic minimalism" - Financial Times, September 2016.

Please note that A Room for London has now closed.

A House for Essex is featured in Channel 4 documentary.