The Record
Barnes Coy Architects was founded in 1993 by Christopher Coy and the late Robert Barnes, and the firm counts more than 250 projects, most of them single-family houses. This one went up in 2018 at 445 Glen Court in Cutchogue, on 0.46 acre at the top of a 55-foot bluff, and its living room is a glass wall two stories tall that faces west over Long Island Sound.
The firm's houses are the subject of Assembled in Light, a Rizzoli monograph by the architecture critic Alastair Gordon. Its own description of its work, minimal forms, floor-to-ceiling transparency and rugged textures, is a fair description of this plan.
What is inside
The main floor is one room of 974 square feet holding the kitchen, the living room and the dining table, with doors out to a 1,034-square-foot pool terrace. Two bedrooms of 228 square feet each sit in a wing on the same level. A floating stair rises to two larger bedrooms: the primary, with a walk-in closet and bath, and a second with its own balcony. The lower level, 557 square feet with a full bath, is styled as a London speakeasy, in the listing agent's words.
The ground
The floors are white oak and Alabama limestone over radiant heat. Outside there is a heated saltwater pool, a hot tub, a firepit and a 1,000-square-foot roof deck for the sunsets. The neighborhood keeps its own park and the stairs down to the beach.
