Sustainability on the farm

The four new cottages are built from a 300-year old stone barn, retaining as many old features as possible, and reusing old wood and stone throughout.
All stone used in construction is either recycled from old farm buildings or dug out of our own fields.
The hardcore used in foundations for external areas such as patios was created by crushing the concrete bases of derelict cattle barns.
Central heating in the cottages is provided by a Biomass boiler, which burns wood pellets.
All the new cottages have solar thermal panels to heat hot water.
All lighting in the new cottages is low voltage LED.
Showers have reduced flow shower heads.
If you are staying in the B&B, then the farmhouse has four solar panels, ground source heating and solar thermal panels for hot water too.
There are recycling facilities throughout.
Fencing between cottage gardens is either recycled from timber on the farm or using sustainably harvested coppiced English chestnut.
Gardens are terraced using reclaimed railways sleepers.
We are reusing centuries old cobbles from beneath the barns in the hard landscaping of the gardens.
The cottage gardens are managed as organically as possible, for example using bark peelings from the chestnut fence posts to control weeds in flower borders.