CONTACTS/ SUPPLIERS


ARCHITECT


Roderick James Architects roderickjamesarchitects.com


OAK FRAME Carpenter Oak carpenteroak.com


MAIN CONTRACTOR BroadOak Construction broadoakconstruction.co.uk


KITCHEN Peter Booth Kitchens booth-kitchens.co.uk


BEDROOM: A balcony with glass doors in the main bedroom provides views towards Dartmoor


“In every room, you can see the structure of the building and experience the texture of the oak”


“You realise all the work and craftsmanship that’s gone into the frame.”


Once the house was weathertight, the oak frame could be sandblasted clean to reveal its grain. “For months afterwards, the house made these cracking sounds, like gunshots,” laughs Jo. “It was just the oak settling and the sand working its way out. The smell of the fresh timber was incredible.”


A simple softwood studwork and rafter structure, with an inner and outer timber-based sheathing board, was used to wrap around the exposed green oak frame. Warmcel cellulose fi bre insulation, made from recycled newspaper, was then injected into the voids between studs and rafters under pressure, via small holes drilled into the inner sheathing board, before airtight patches were applied over holes to close the panels. There are several benefi ts to this kind of


timber-based insulation system, including the signifi cantly reduced carbon footprint and avoidance of off gassing from synthetic alternatives,” says Luke Sutton. “The high density of the insulation results in excellent acoustic properties in addition to high thermal performance. There’s minimal waste, as you install exactly the amount of insulation needed, rather than cutting sheets of material to fi t, and inecting the insulation means that every void is fully fi lled.


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The orientation of the glass was carefully considered to optimise passive solar gain in the winter months, using the deep overhang of the balcony and porch roof structures to provide solar shading in the height of summer. “In every room, you can see the structure of the building and experience the texture of the oak,” says Luke. “We used roof windows to bring natural light into the depths of the building, drawing the eye upwards to the vaulted roof space and accentuating the sense of height and space.” Large glazed doors open the house to the


garden, and the fi ve panel system tilts and stacks like a pack of cards to one side. “The doors were expensive, but totally worth it,” says Jo. “They connect the house to the garden and view, which was exactly what we’d hoped for.” Internal walls and ceilings are lined in


Fermacell board, an alternative to conventional plasterboard with a recycled paper content, but with greater density, sound resistance and screw holding ability than plasterboard. In addition, it does not require a plaster skim coat –saving on both trades and the associated drying time of wet plaster.


The exterior of the new house is largely clad in cedar to the front, with composite cedar cladding to the rear, and local stone sourced from a quarry near Tavistock. A stone plinth wall wraps around the building and extends


GLAZING Devonshire Windows (Rationel windows & IDS doors) devonshirewindows.co.uk


FERMACELL (DRY LINING/ BACKING BOARD) James Hardie Europe GmbH (Fermacell UK) fermacell.co.uk


WARMCEL INSULATION PYC Group / Warmcel UK distributor pycgroup.co.uk / warmcel.co.uk


STONE FLOORING Mandarin Stone mandarinstone.com


GLASS ART


Steve Robinson Glass vividglassart.co.uk


FUSED GLASS ARTWORK Jo Downs Handmade Glass jodowns.com


ROOF WINDOWS Velux


velux.co.uk


CLADDING OIL Osmo


osmouk.com


RAINWATER GOODS Lindab


lindab.com


BATHROOM SUPPLIER Bathroom Inspirations in Dorchester bathroominspirationsdorchester.com


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