Rightmove Voyeurism



It is like a kid making a real life pineapple house from Spongebob squarepants, but then grew out of it and decided to decorate the rest of the house like Pirates of the carribean.
:D:D Monty said it had changed once. I can imagine some people walking into it, liking various parts and thinking wow. In some pictures it does look quite impressive. But it is big, and largely open plan. That library is pretty much a balcony, and even the bedroom seem to be open to some extent. I think the lack of furniture in it shows it doesn't really work as a house. Odd to think that if I had a spare £4m, I could move from my 3 bed semi into a place my house could probably fit inside twice over, but struggle to find places to put our stuff.
 
This is.....a lot.

Obviously it’s a complete one off and it may not be to everyone’s taste, but here’s what I like about it. It is timber framed, using a technique that is thousands of years old and how most buildings in areas of the UK without a source of strong local stone were built until railways came along and meant brick and stone could be cheaply moved about. This is a robust and of course sustainable way of building, entirely in character with the man who established a huge tree replanting charity. I was lucky enough to own and live in a fifteenth century timber framed house for a while (a small one!) and that means I can recognise this as a modern masterpiece of the craft. I can’t think of a timber framed building that has been built on this scale in the 20/21 century. Maybe the re-roofing of St George’s Chapel at Windsor. I really applaud him for building this way (it’s not cheap), for keeping these ancient crafts alive. Like it or loathe it, for that reason alone it should be immediately listed.
PS if I win the lottery and get to build my Grand Designs house, I will build a timber framed Kentish hall house based on original 15th century designs. It’s is a fascinating and wonderful building technology and to me the Kentish hall house is the perfect house. It’s actually of course very low tech but there’s a reason these buildings stand for hundreds of years.
 
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Obviously it’s a complete one off and it may not be to everyone’s taste, but here’s what I like about it. It is timber framed, using a technique that is thousands of years old and how most buildings in areas of the UK without a source of strong local stone were built until railways came along and meant brick and stone could be cheaply moved about. This is a robust and of course sustainable way of building, entirely in character with the man who established a huge tree replanting charity. I was lucky enough to own and live in a fifteenth century timber framed house for a while (a small one!) and that means I can recognise this as a modern masterpiece of the craft. I can’t think of a timber framed building that has been built on this scale in the 20/21 century. Maybe the re-roofing of St George’s Chapel at Windsor. I really applaud him for building this way (it’s not cheap), for keeping these ancient crafts alive. Like it or loathe it, for that reason alone it should be immediately listed.
PS if I win the lottery and get to build my Grand Designs house, I will build a timber framed Kentish hall house based on original 15th century designs. It’s is a fascinating and wonderful building technology and to me the Kentish hall house is the perfect house. It’s actually of course very low tech but there’s a reason these buildings stand for hundreds of years.
I agree about the timbers and structure. I generally love the look of wood. I got married in this place and just loved the look of the building:
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(Merchant Adventurers Hall, York)

Like you said, the actual structure of that is not too different to that house. I think someone took a great basis of an architects design, then got really excited and made it into a novelty house.

My favourite house on Grand Designs was a mostly wood structured project. I think the blokes name was Kelly and had a Japanese wife, but I can't find any pictures online on that vague description! He was an amazing craftsman. The kitchen units had a nice rugged bark edge on and there is one scene where he had a router and some wheat stuck in a jar, and was just copying their shape to make a carved wheat pattern in the wood. I tried using my router to straighten up the edge of a loft hatch I had made and painted up nice - that is still in the shed with a gouge out of it when I slipped.
 
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