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Conventional concrete foundations just wider and more curvacious than most new houses Concrete blocks used where they will not be seen, just the width and shape of walls suggest what is to come 100mm polystyrene then 50mm ecotherm underfloor insulation
Rediculous amount of insulation in the 450mm cavity of the 900mm wide plinth wall Underfloor heating goes in Concrete oversite covers underfloor heating pipes
Plinth wall finnished dense blocks used inside to increase thermal mass lightweight blocks used when insulation or sculptability take precedence JCB used to mix and where possible lay cob on wall Though placed by machine cob is trod under foot and moved about as necessary using pitch forks



Cadhay - Sold

This is a complete new house on a lovely south west facing rural site 1 mile from Ottery St Mary town centre half a mile from Kings school (one of Devons top comprehensives) and 10 minutes from the M5 at Exeter.

The house has been designed to provide fantastic esthetic space with an emphasis on longivity and enviromental considerations. It has supurb thermal performance, hot water and heating will be provided by ground source heat pump. We have used natural local materials as far as reasonably possible.

2,500 sq ft of accommodation will comprise a very spacious living room, kitchen diner, a utility and ground floor loo, four large bedrooms, a spectacular second floor family room / study, and three full bathrooms. Finished to a very high specification with underfloor heating and porcelain and oak floors throughout, oak doors, sweet chestnut and oak windows, hand made iron mongery, green oak beams, lintels and roof structure covered in fine French water reed thatch.

This is the fourth new house we have created, and the fisrt three have all won awards: Lower Tricombe won the Daily Telegraph best converted home award 1995. Cobtun won the IRBA Best environmental house 2005, and Keppel gate has just won the LABC South West region best vernacular building.

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