Sanctuary Style

ONE MIGHT REASONABLY expect a residence named Grotto House to possess cave-like characteristics - an underground chamber or a rock pool perhaps - but that might be taking things a little too literally.

Instead, this particular three-storey 'grotto' in a prime residential district is cool, comfortable and thoroughly contemporary.

The multi-generational home - completed in 2017 and home to a doctor couple, their three teenage children and one set of grandparents - sits on a 5,000-square-foot plot at the base of a small hill.